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RG Kar Hospital Case:  Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, and Abhijit Mondal, the then officer-in-charge of the Tala police station, were granted bail by a Kolkata court on Friday in relation to the rape and murder case of a 31-year-old doctor.

They were granted bail because the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was unable to file the chargesheet against them within the allotted 90 days.

Ghosh would, however, continue to be held by the CBI since the anti-corruption division of the investigation agency had detained him in relation to purported financial irregularities in the medical establishment while he was employed there.

In August of this year, Ghosh and Mondal were apprehended after the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital garnered global attention following the discovery of a 31-year-old doctor's body in the hospital's fourth-floor seminar room. Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer, is accused of raping and killing the doctor on the intervening night of August 9–10.

They were arrested on accusations of deceiving the investigation.

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The agency filed a petition in a CBI court accusing Ghosh of contributing to "considerable delay in registration of FIR." Even though the body of the trainee doctor was discovered early on August 9, it took the police more than 12 hours to file a first information report (FIR), a delay that has drawn attention from the Supreme Court. According to reports, the CBI is concerned about the case's evidence being destroyed.

A civic volunteer with easy access to the hospital was arrested by the city police shortly after the investigation began, but the Calcutta high court turned the investigation over to the CBI due to claims of evidence destruction and cover-up. The Supreme Court had also cited the central agency's lack of evidence.