Kolkata: Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) anti-corruption branch in connection with the alleged ‘financial misconduct’ at the RG Kar hospital, officials said. Sandip Ghosh before being arrested was questioned for 15 days straight at the CBI’s Salt Lake office over the alleged rape and murder of the RG Kar hospital post-graduate trainee. He was also subjected to polygraph tests. Sandip Ghosh was taken to the CBI Anti-Corruption Branch in Nizam Palace from the CBI special crime branch office in the Salt Lake CGO Complex in Kolkata.
Apart from the Kolkata doctor rape case, Sandip Ghosh was also being investigated for alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar hospital. As soon as the news broke of Sandip Ghosh’s arrest, junior doctors who had been protesting over the Kolkata doctor rape case started celebrations. RG Kar Hospital’s former deputy superintendent, Dr Akhtar Ali, lodged multiple complaints of financial irregularities at the establishment during Ghosh’s tenure as principal. Sandip Ghosh had earlier resigned as the principal of RG Kar hospital. However, he was reinstated as the principal of the National Medical College and Hospital, another Bengal government-run hospital. Notably, Sandip Ghosh is also being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over his role in the Kolkata doctor rape and murder case as well as money laundering charges.