A team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) reached the residence of the former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, to carry out a search operation on Thursday (September 12, 2024).
“The search operations were conducted at the flat of Chandan Louhya in Kolkata’s Tala area and an office in Kalindi,” an official said.
Another team of the ED was conducting a raid at Mr. Ghosh’s ancestral home in Chinar Park in North 24 Parganas district.
“Our officers are questioning Louhya and his wife. She had been shown favour by Ghosh in granting a tender,” the official told PTI.
“There is another team looking for documents at the office of an organisation, which used to supply equipment to R.G. Kar hospital. There are some dubious transactions between the medical establishment and this organisation,” he said.
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Earlier on September 10, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court remanded Sandip Ghosh and three others to judicial custody till September 23 in the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital financial irregularities case.
The Anti-Corruption Branch of the CBI arrested Sandip Ghosh on September 2. Mr. Ghosh was under investigation for alleged corruption and financial irregularities at the college and hospital, following a directive from a single Bench of the Calcutta High Court, which ordered the CBI to probe the matter.
On August 24, following the orders of the Calcutta High Court, an official FIR was registered by the CBI against Mr. Ghosh in the alleged corruption case. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) of Kolkata also suspended the membership of Mr. Ghosh amid a CBI probe into the corruption case.
Earlier on August 26, the CBI conducted a second round of polygraph tests on Mr. Ghosh as part of their investigation into the rape-murder of a woman doctor at the institution.
The Calcutta High Court has granted the CBI three weeks to submit a progress report on the investigation, which is to be presented on September 17. A woman trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
Published - September 12, 2024 09:50 am IST
