Kolkata Doctor Death Case: Bengal SIT to investigate financial irregularities, CBI grills Former RG Kar Principal

Kolkata: In connection with the ongoing investigation into the brutal rape and murder of the postgraduate medico at R G Kar Medical College Hospital in Kolkata, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers questioned Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kar Medical College for the fourth consecutive day.

On Monday, the West Bengal government established a Special Investigation Team to probe financial irregularities at the hospital from January 2021 to the present.

Ghosh reached the CBI's city office at CGO Complex on Monday morning, an official said.

According to the PTI report, Ghosh was asked to specify his role after getting the news of the death of the doctor, who he had contacted and why he made the parents wait for nearly three hours, he said.

Ghosh has been questioned for several hours in the last three days since Friday by the CBI officers.

As per a media report in the HT, an order from the West Bengal government said a SIT has been formed to conduct the probe of the alleged financial irregularities, and will submit a report within a month.

A ‘notification’ from the Bengal government's Home and hill affairs department internal security branch, said the SIT, headed by inspector general of police Pranav Kumar, will have the “liberty to access any relevant document from government departments and private agencies required for expeditious completion of the inquiry”.

The officers of the central probe agency are also checking his mobile phone call list details as well as his WhatsApp chat list, news agency PTI reported.

Ghosh, an orthopaedic doctor, had resigned from the R G Kar Medical College principal's post two days after the woman's body was found on August 9. He had expressed fears of being attacked, prompting his lawyer to seek protection from the Calcutta High Court. The court directed him to approach a single bench.

The body of the postgraduate trainee doctor was found in a seminar room at Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Police arrested a civic volunteer the next day in this connection.