The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Ashish Pandey in reference to a graft case towards R G Kar school ex-principal Sandip Ghosh. Pandey is understood to be a Trinamool Congress youth chief.
Pandey, who is claimed to be near Sandip Ghosh, was underneath the probe company’s scanner. He was questioned by the CBI on September 30, information company PTI reported.
The previous RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh was arrested within the corruption case on September 2. Nonetheless, later the probe company took his custody within the August 9 rape and homicide case of a postgraduate trainee physician on the medical school in Kolkata.
Performing on the instructions of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom, the CBI registered its FIR and booked Ghosh and three Kolkata-based non-public entities together with Ma Tara Merchants of Madhya Jhorehat, Banipur, Howrah; Eshan Cafe of 4/1, Belgachia, and Khama Louha.
The company has filed the FIR towards Ghosh and the non-public entities underneath Indian Penal Code sections 120 B (felony conspiracy), 420 (dishonest) and the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The premises of all of the entities named within the CBI FIR had been additionally searched through the operation.
On Tuesday, the CBI had grilled Sandip Ghosh and the suspended officer-in-charge of Tala Police Station, Abhijit Mondal, in Kolkata in reference to the Kolkata physician’s rape and homicide at RG Kar. They had been interrogated on the Presidency Correctional House the place the 2 have been lodged, PTI reported.
They had been first questioned individually after which collectively, a CBI official stated. “The 2 had been questioned by our officers concerning the lady medic homicide case. Now we have recorded their variations. The interrogation continued until late on Tuesday,” he stated.
A Kolkata court docket on Monday suspended police officer Mondal until October 4 in reference to the case. The judicial custody of the previous RG Kar principal was additionally prolonged. The court docket additionally requested the probe company to interrogate Ghosh and Mondal in jail.