Kolkata:
In one other setback for Sandip Ghosh, who was the principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical School and Hospital when a trainee physician was raped and murdered there final month, a particular CBI courtroom has despatched him to judicial custody until September 23. Ghosh was arrested by the CBI on September 2 in a case of alleged monetary irregularities on the hospital, and has been within the company’s custody since then.
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom had ordered the switch of the investigation into the alleged monetary irregularities on the state-run hospital, the place Ghosh had been the principal since 2021 – with a quick hiatus in between – from a particular investigation workforce of the Kolkata Police to the CBI on August 23. The order had come after a former deputy superintendent of the ability, Dr Akhtar Ali, had sought an investigation.
Mr Ali had accused Sandip Ghosh of involvement within the unlawful sale of unclaimed corpses, trafficking of biomedical waste, and issuing tenders to pick drugs and medical gear suppliers in alternate for fee. He had additionally alleged that college students have been pressured to pay quantities operating into lakhs of rupees to move exams.
Ghosh was arrested by the CBI after being questioned a number of occasions in a span of two weeks. Three different individuals – distributors Biplav Singha and Suman Hazara, and Afsar Ali, a safety guard – have been additionally taken into custody.
After Ghosh was despatched to the CBI’s custody for eight days a day after his arrest, he was suspended by the West Bengal authorities, which has been below fireplace over its dealing with of the rape and homicide case and a posting given to the previous RG Kar principal after he resigned following the crime.
On Tuesday, Ghosh, Afsar Ali, Biplav Singha and Suman Hazara have been despatched to judicial custody by the particular CBI courtroom in Kolkata’s Alipore until September 23.
Protests Proceed
On Friday, the Supreme Courtroom had additionally dismissed Ghosh’s petition difficult the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom order transferring the investigation into the irregularities to the CBI. He had additionally sought the removing of sure feedback made by the excessive courtroom, and the Supreme Courtroom mentioned no to that as properly.
Kolkata and several other different locations have seen continued protests over the rape and homicide of the trainee physician within the hospital on August 9. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has additionally discovered herself being attacked by the BJP and different events and criticised by the sufferer’s mother and father after she requested individuals to return to ‘pujo’ celebrations, referring to the the upcoming Durga Puja competition.
“It has been a month (for the reason that August 9 incident). I request you come back to pujo, return to the festivities and ask the CBI to make sure justice as quickly as potential,” she mentioned on Monday.
Reacting to the feedback, the sufferer’s mother and father instructed information company PTI, “We celebrated Durga Puja with our daughter, we is not going to have a good time Durga Puja or every other competition for years to return. Her remarks are insensitive.”
BJP chief and Chief of the Opposition within the Bengal meeting Suvendu Adhikari accused the Trinamool Congress chief of treating individuals like puppets. “(Do you suppose) they are going to stand, sit, have a good time and cease protests if you ask them to? The pujo fortnight has not began but, the demon is but to be slayed. Be affected person, the Mom’s energy has woke up, it would cleanse Bengal,” he wrote in a put up on X.