• By Nidhi Giri
  • Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:57 AM (IST)
  • Source:JND

Kolkata Rape-Murder: The Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) anti-corruption branch on Sunday held a raid at the premises of former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh in Kolkata in relation with a corruption probe. The agency also carried out searches at 15 other locations in Kolkata linked to the case. The development comes a day after CBI took over the case of alleged financial irregularities on Saturday at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital during the tenure of Sandip Ghosh, officials said. Action was initiated after the Calcutta High Court transferred the probe to the agency from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT). The college has come under media glare following the alleged rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor on the campus on August 9.

The CBI also reached the residence of Dr Debashish Som, Demonstrator, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. Akhtar Ali, a former deputy superintendent at the hospital filed a complaint regarding corruption and irregularities happening at the medical college, mentioning Dr Debashish Som's name, as per news agency ANI.

According to the officials, the CBI collected the necessary documents from the SIT on Saturday and proceeded to re-register the FIR. The high court had issued the directive on a petition by Akhtar Ali, who requested a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged financial misconduct at the medical college during the tenure of Ghosh.

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The college has come under media glare following the alleged rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor on the campus on August 9.

The high court had directed the CBI to submit a progress report on the investigation within three weeks. The court has scheduled a follow-up hearing for September 17 to review the report.

Meanwhile, the lie detection tests on the main accused and six others began on Saturday. The polygraph test on Sanjay Roy, the main accused, is being conducted in the prison where he is lodged, while the remaining six, including former principal Sandip Ghosh and four doctors who were on duty during the night of the incident and a civic volunteer, are undergoing the test at the agency's office in Kolkata, they said.

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Ghosh arrived at the CBI's office at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Saturday morning for the ninth consecutive day and was then taken for the test, the officials said.

According to news agency PTI, those undergoing the lie detection test include two first-year postgraduate trainees, as investigators allegedly found their fingerprints inside a seminar hall at the state-run medical facility where the medic's body was discovered.