A new revelation has been made about the former principal of Kolkata’s government medical college RG Kar, Sandip Ghosh. ED claimed on Tuesday that Sandip Ghosh and his wife bought two immovable properties without the approval of the Bengal government. They have three flats and a farmhouse in Kolkata. Sandip Ghosh was arrested by the CBI on 2 September. He is in judicial custody till 23 September. Last month, a woman doctor was raped and murdered in RG Kar Medical College. This has shaken not only Bengal but the entire country. The doctors of the hospital are constantly demanding the strictest and quick punishment for the accused.
During its probe into the case against Sandip Ghosh, the ED claimed that the wife of Sandip Ghosh, former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, purchased two immovable properties without “due approval” from West Bengal government authorities. The federal agency said in a statement that it found documents related to about half a dozen houses, flats and a farmhouse owned by the doctor couple during searches at the premises of Ghosh and his “close relatives” at seven locations in Kolkata on September 6.
The ED has registered a case against Sandeep Ghosh in a money laundering case related to alleged financial irregularities after taking cognizance of a CBI FIR. The former principal came under the scanner after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old female trainee doctor at the hospital on August 9. The ED said that Ghosh’s wife Dr. Sangeeta Ghosh purchased two immovable properties “without proper approval from state government officials”.
The ED said, “During the search, several other incriminating documents and digital devices belonging to Dr Sandip Ghosh have been seized. These documents relating to properties have been seized on the basis of prima facie suspicion that these properties were purchased from the proceeds of crime.”
judicial custody till 23 September
Sandeep Ghosh has been sent to judicial custody till September 23 by a special CBI court in a case of financial irregularities. The court also ordered his security guard Afsar Ali and two alleged associates (medical equipment seller Biplab Sinha and medicine shop owner Suman Hazra) to be sent to judicial custody till September 23. Although the accused were first sent to CBI custody for eight days, leaving the investigating agency with the option of seeking a maximum remand of six days, the investigators did not file any such plea before the court.
