ED raids properties of ex-RG Kar principal in Kolkata in financial fraud case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted raids at four locations in Kolkata, including two flats of former.
RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, in connection to the alleged financial scam involving the institution where the 31-year-old trainee woman doctor was raped and killed on August 9.
The other two locations being raided by the ED are in the Laketown and Tala areas of the city, where an office of a medical supplier and the residence of a medical supplies vendor, who supplied medicines to the RG Kar hospital, are located.
The fresh searches come days after the ED carried out raids at multiple locations in West Bengal’s Howrah, Sonarpur and Hooghly in the same matter.
About two weeks ago, the central probe agency filed a case against alleged financial irregularities at the RG Kar Medical College.
The case was registered on the basis of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) FIR, which named Dr Ghosh in connection with its probe into the trainee doctor’s rape and murder.
In the FIR, the CBI has slapped criminal conspiracy, cheating, and dishonesty along with Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act in connection with the financial misconduct at RG Kar Medical College.
The cases account for cognisable offences and are non-bailable in nature.
Sandip Ghosh served as the principal of RG Kar Hospital from February 2021 until September 2023. Although, he was transferred in October 2023, he inexplicably resumed his role at the hospital within a month.
He remained in this position until the day of the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor.
On September 2, the CBI arrested Dr Ghosh in a corruption case, and he was later sent to the probe agency’s custody.