Former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh moves Supreme Court challenging transfer of corruption case to CBI
New Delhi: Former Principal of RG Kar Medical College, Sandip Ghosh, on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court challenging the transfer of the investigation into alleged financial irregularities to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
According to an ANI report, his plea has been listed on September 6 before a bench led by Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud.
The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Dr Sandip Ghosh on September 2.
Dr Ghosh was under investigation for alleged corruption and financial irregularities at the college and hospital, following a directive from a single bench of the Calcutta High Court, which ordered the CBI to probe the matter.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that in connection with the alleged irregularities at RG Kar Medical College Hospital in Kolkata, former Principal Dr Sandip Ghosh was placed under 8-day police custody on Tuesday. The next hearing of the case will be on September 10.
On August 24, following the orders of the Calcutta High Court, an official FIR was registered by the CBI against Ghosh on the alleged corruption case. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) of Kolkata also suspended the membership of former Sandip Ghosh amid a CBI probe into the corruption case, news agency ANI reported.
Earlier on August 26, the CBI also concluded a second round of polygraph tests on Dr Ghosh as part of their investigation into the rape-murder of a woman doctor at the institution.
The Calcutta High Court has given the CBI three weeks to submit a progress report on the investigation, with a deadline set for September 17.
The trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
