New Delhi/Kolkata. CBI sleuths on Sunday raided the premises of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s former principal Sandip Ghosh, former medical superintendent-cum-vice principal (MSVP) Sanjay Vasisht and 13 others in and around Kolkata in connection with their probe into alleged financial irregularities at the hospital, officials said. The CBI’s anti-corruption unit also raided residences and offices of people involved in the supply of material for patient care and management.
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Officials said at least seven officers of the central probe agency were questioning Ghosh at his residence in Beliaghata since 8 am, while other officers were questioning Vasisht and others, including another professor of the forensic-medicine department of the medical institute. They said the CBI team, which arrived at Ghosh’s residence at around 6 am with a large contingent of central forces, had to wait for about one-and-a-half hours before the former principal opened the door.
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Other officials of the central agency visited the house of a supplier in Howrah, officials said. “Vashisth is being questioned about his knowledge about the financial irregularities in the hospital when he was MSVP,” they said. Another team of CBI officials also raided the office of the former principal in the hospital and visited the canteen in the academic building. They asked the present principal Manas Kumar Bandopadhyay to reach the hospital in the morning and accompany them during the raid at the medical establishment.
The medical college has been in the news since the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor in its conference room on August 9. The accused in the case, Sanjay Roy, has been arrested. Doctors and common citizens have protested against this heinous crime across the country. On the instructions of the Calcutta High Court, the CBI has registered cases of murder as well as alleged financial irregularities.
