Former RG Kar principal Sandeep Ghosh was produced before a special CBI court on Friday (September 27). The court refused to grant bail to Sandeep. The court said, the charges against Sandeep are serious. If this is proved, Ghosh may be sentenced to death.
The CBI arrested Sandeep Ghosh and Abhijit Mandal, former in-charge of Tala police station, on August 9. The two have been accused of tampering with evidence and delaying the registration of an FIR in the rape-murder case of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital. Sandeep and Abhijeet were sent to judicial custody till September 30.
The picture is of Sanjay Roy, who was arrested on August 10.
Investigation revealed- Documents were wrongly prepared in the police station The CBI investigating the August 9 rape-murder case of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has made new revelations. The agency claimed in the Sealdah court on September 25 that some documents related to the rape-murder case at Tala police station were wrongly prepared and altered.
The CBI said the police delayed by two days in seizing the clothes and belongings of prime accused Sanjay Roy. Had they been investigated in time, strong evidence could have been found against the accused. The agency has sent the CCTV footage of the police station to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) for investigation.
The CBI is now probing any criminal conspiracy between Sanjay Roy, former medical college principal Sandeep Ghosh and Tala police station in-charge Abhijit Mandal.
Consent will be sought from Ghosh-Mandal for narco and polygraph tests on September 30 In the next hearing on September 30, Ghosh's consent will be sought for the narco test and Abhijit Mandal's polygraph test. CBI arrested Abhijit Mandal on September 14.
Sandeep Ghosh was in judicial custody since August 16 in the medical college financial malpractice case. On September 2, the CBI arrested him in a corruption case. He was arrested on September 14 in a rape-murder case.
The body of the trainee doctor was found in the seminar hall of the hospital on August 9 The body of the trainee doctor was found on the morning of August 9 in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. He had gone there to rest during the night shift on the night of August 8. On August 10, police arrested citizen volunteer Sanjay Roy based on CCTV footage.
He was seen entering the seminar hall at 4.03 am on August 9. On August 13, the Calcutta High Court transferred the investigation of the case from the Kolkata Police to the CBI. The CBI conducted the investigation on August 14.
CBI investigation reveals- Ghosh ordered the renovation the day after the incident
A picture of the renovation started near the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College on the evening of 13th August.
A CBI investigation on September 5 revealed that Sandeep Ghosh had ordered the renovation of a room adjacent to the seminar hall the day after the rape-murder of the trainee doctor. Demolition also started near the seminar hall on August 13.
According to sources, the CBI has received documents which confirm that Sandeep Ghosh had written to the state Public Works Department (PWD) on August 10 to renovate the rooms and toilets adjacent to the seminar hall. This permission letter is also signed by Ghosh.
The PWD staff started renovating the room adjacent to the seminar hall. However, the students of the college started a massive protest over the matter, due to which the renovation work was stopped there.
Investigating officials say the renovation letter shows that Ghosh was in a hurry to get the job done, so the document could help link the rape-murder case and the financial irregularities case at RG Kar College.
Sandeep Ghosh, facing corruption charges, resigned on August 12 Three days after the rape-murder incident, Sandeep Ghosh resigned as principal on 12 August, accepting moral responsibility for the incident. However, the CBI detained him on August 16 in connection with corruption in RG Kar College.
A case of financial irregularities was registered against Ghosh on August 24. The CBI has taken this action on the orders of the Calcutta High Court. Following this, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) suspended the membership of Sandeep Ghosh on 28 August.
CBI probe exposes financial irregularities…
- Sandeep Ghosh introduced the interview system for appointment of medical house staff. However, there was no panel of hospital interviewers. The final marks of the interview were released before the appointment. Ghosh is also accused of not appointing many qualified trainee doctors.
- Sandeep Ghosh was stationed at Murshidabad Medical College between 2016 and 2018. Since then he knew Biplav and Suman. Ghosh along with his security guards Biplav and Suman ran a network of corruption.
- After Ghosh became Principal of RG Kar Medical College, he called Biplab and Suman to Kolkata. He received several tenders for the hospital from both the vendors. Ghosh's guard was also contracting with vendors to sell hospital biomedical vests.
- Biplab ran many companies including Tara Traders, Baba Loknath, Tiyasha Enterprises. He used to apply for hospital tenders in the name of all these companies. So that there is competition in the market for tenders. In which only one company was getting the tender.
- The CBI has also found many flaws in the manner in which tenders were awarded to Biplab companies. The CBI said that work order letters were written to several college officials, but these letters were never handed over to them. This means that other officials were not included in the tender process.
- According to the agency, Ghosh's guard wife Nargis's company Ishaan Cafe got the canteen contract at the hospital. Sandeep Ghosh also returned the non-refundable caution money to the guard's wife's company.
Image Credit: (Divya-Bhaskar): Images/graphics belong to (Divya-Bhaskar).
