A team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday morning conducted a raid at the residence of the former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar MCH, Sandip Ghosh. Raids are also underway at the houses of Ghosh’s three close associates. Raids are underway at seven locations in Kolkata and Howrah by the ED in connection with the RG Kar MCH money laundering case.
Earlier in the week, Ghosh was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the medical establishment during his tenure. On Tuesday, Ghosh was sent to eight days of police custody.
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Doctors from BR Singh Hospital, Eastern Railway, will conduct medical tests on Sandip Ghosh and three others who were arrested by the CBI in connection with alleged financial irregularities. The medical examinations will be done on Saturday at the probe agency’s anti-corruption branch in West Bengal.
Ghosh was earlier removed from his chair at RG Kar MCH after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the hospital on August 9. The CBI’s Special Crime Branch is probing the rape and murder case while the anti-corruption wing is now questioning Ghosh in the financial irregularities case.
The hospital’s former deputy superintendent Dr Akhtar Ali had lodged complaints of financial irregularities on multiple counts at the establishment during Ghosh’s tenure as principal.
Ghosh, who was removed from his chair at RG Kar Hospital after the crime came to light and reinstated in the same position at the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital within hours by the Mamata Banerjee government, was subsequently asked to go on an indefinite leave in the wake of massive protests and pending the corruption inquiry.
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