RG Kar Corruption Case: ED Searches Sandip Ghosh's Residence, Other Locations In Kolkata

A team of the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday carried out searches at several locations, including the residence of former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, in Kolkata.

The searches were being conducted in connection with the financial irregularities at the hospital, where the body of a trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered, was found on August 9.

The searches were also being carried out at the residence of Sandip Ghosh’s father, Satya Prakash Ghosh.

According to news agency ANI, the ED searches were also underway at various suburban areas, including the residence of Chandan Louhar – a businessman and an aide to Ghosh. Louhar was responsible for various tenders at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Video shows ED personnel at Louhar’s residence.

Another team was conducting searches at Octane Medical in South Dumdum. According to the details, the manufacturing and sale of various medical equipment were carried out at this place.

Earlier, on September 6, the ED conducted simultaneous search operations at the residences of Sandip Ghosh and three of his associates in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the hospital. Later, the team confirmed it recovered various digital evidence from his premises.

SANDIP GHOSH IN JUDICIAL CUSTODY

On September 10, Sandip Ghosh was sent to judicial custody till September 23 by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in the financial irregularities case.

The court also sent his security personnel, Afsar Ali, and two alleged associates – medical equipment vendor, Biplab Singha, and pharmacy shop owner, Suman Hazara, – to judicial custody till September 23.

Although the accused were previously remanded to CBI custody for eight days, leaving the probe agency with the option to pray for another six days of maximum remand, the investigators made no such petition before the court.

Ghosh and the others were arrested by the CBI on charges of financial irregularities on September 2, amid protests over the rape and murder of the trainee doctor at the RG Kar Hospital.

The Calcutta High Court on August 23 ordered the transfer of the probe into the alleged financial irregularities from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the CBI.