Blitz Bureau
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on August 25 conducted simultaneous raid and search operations at four places, including the residence of Dr Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in connection with the financial irregularities.
Apart from Ghosh’s residence at Beliaghata in central Kolkata, the three other places where the CBI sleuths are conducting raid and search operations include the residences of R.G. Kar’s former medical superintendent and vice principal Sanjay Vashisth at Entally; the Demonstrator of the hospital’s forensic medicine department, Debasish Som Keshtopur in northern outskirts of Kolkata; and a medical equipment supplier Biplab Sinha in Howrah district.
The officials of the anti-corruption wing of the CBI, which is based out of Nizam Palace in central Kolkata, are investigating the financial irregularities in Kolkata. The sleuths of CBI’s special crime unit are also conducting a probe into the rape and murder of a junior woman doctor of the same hospital within the hospital premises earlier this month. Both investigations are being conducted following the orders of the Calcutta High Court, and both are court-monitored.
The team of CBI sleuths, which reached Ghosh’s residence in the morning, had to wait for almost 90 minutes before the door was opened. During the waiting period, one CBI official repeatedly tried to contact Ghosh over his mobile phone which remained unanswered.
