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Ex-RG Kar Principal Sandip Ghosh sent to 8-day Police custody in corruption case
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Kolkata: 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.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that In a recent development, the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Dr Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College, along with three others, in connection with alleged corruption and financial misconduct at the institution.
Dr Ghosh, along with three others, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday.
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.
Earlier today, Dr Ghosh and the three others were presented at the Alipore Judges Court in connection with the financial irregularities case.
According to an ANI report, lawyers raised slogans outside Alipore Judges Court in Kolkata and demanded justice for the deceased doctor and death penalty for RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's former principal Sandip Ghosh.
Earlier, doctors from B. R. Singh Hospital, Eastern Railway conducted the medical tests of former principal of RG Kar Medical Hospital and College, Dr Sandip Ghosh and three others arrested. Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) anti-corruption branch had arrested Dr Ghosh and three others over alleged financial irregularities in the Medical College and Hospital, news agency ANI reported.
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.
Meanwhile, the Junior doctors also held a protest in Kolkata demanding an immediate resignation of the Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal.
"Until the Commissioner of Police doesn't agree to meet us, or resigns then we would be protesting day and night. Until he resigns, or comes to meet us, or allows us to meet him, that is what we would accept. We would not accept anyone under him, we need to meet him", one of the protestors said while speaking to ANI.
Kajal joined Medical Dialogue in 2019 for the Latest Health News. She has done her graduation from the University of Delhi. She mainly covers news about the Latest Healthcare. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.