The Supreme Court today dismissed the petition of former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Principal Sandip Ghosh, who has found himself at the center of a storm after a trainee doctor was raped and murdered at the institution last month, challenging a Calcutta High Court order transferring the investigation into the corruption case against him to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The Calcutta High Court had ordered the transfer of the investigation into the alleged financial irregularities at the state-run hospital, where Ghosh had been the principal since 2021 – with a brief hiatus in between – from a special investigation team to the CBI on August 23.
The order had come after a former deputy superintendent of the facility, Dr Akhtar Ali, had sought an investigation into the alleged irregularities during Ghosh’s tenure as the head of the hospital.
Ghosh was arrested by the CBI in the case on Monday after being questioned several times in a span of two weeks. Three other people – vendors Biplav Singha and Suman Hazara, and Afsar Ali, a security guard – were also taken into custody. Ghosh was sent to the CBI’s custody for eight days and the West Bengal government, which has been under fire over its handling of the rape case and a posting given to the former RG Kar principal after he resigned following the rape and murder, suspended him on Tuesday.
