Kolkata, Sep 3 (IANS) A special court in Kolkata on Tuesday sent former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh, who was arrested in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the state-run college, to eight-day Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody.
CBI had arrested Sandeep Ghosh on Monday evening.
The CBI had sought 10-day remand of Ghosh on the ground that he needed to be further interrogated to obtain more information related to financial irregularities, but the court granted eight days to the CBI.
The CBI counsel told the court that a big racket was going on in the medical institute and Ghosh was an important component of it. Hence, he needs to be questioned at length to reach other people involved in it.
On Tuesday, when Ghosh was being taken from the central agency’s Nizam Palace office to the special court, a huge crowd gathered outside and started shouting “thief, thief”. Agency officials had a tough time getting them out and into the vehicle.
The necessary medical examination before appearing in the court was completed late Monday night at the Nizam Palace complex, for which a team of doctors from the Central Hospital reached the CBI office.
Sources said that in view of the growing public anger against Ghosh, CBI officials did not take the risk of taking him to the hospital.
Ghosh is being investigated in the case of financial irregularities as well as the rape and murder of a junior resident doctor of R.G. Kar College on the hospital premises last month. Officials of the central agency are simultaneously investigating both these cases, which are court-directed and court-monitored.
–IANS
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