Setback For Former RG Kar Hospital Principal Sandip Ghosh As Supreme Court Dismisses His Plea Against CBI Probe Into Financial Irregularities

The Supreme Court on Friday (6 September) dismissed the plea filed by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, challenging a Calcutta High Court order transferring the investigation into the corruption case against him to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Ghosh has found himself at the centre of a storm after a trainee doctor was raped and murdered at the Kolkata hospital last month.

A Supreme Court bench, comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra, also turned down Ghosh’s request to be included as a party in a petition alleging financial irregularities at the institute during his tenure.

"As an accused, you have no locus to intervene in the PIL where the Calcutta high court is monitoring the investigation," the bench said, NDTV reported.

The apex Court also declined to remove some remarks made by the High Court linking the corruption allegations with the rape of the trainee doctor in Kolkata on 9 August.

On 23 August, the Calcutta High Court had directed that the inquiry into the suspected financial irregularities at the hospital, where Ghosh had served as principal since 2021, be transferred from a special investigation team to the CBI.

The order had come after a former deputy superintendent of the facility, Dr Akhtar Ali, had sought an investigation into the alleged irregularities during Ghosh's tenure as the head of the hospital.

Ghosh was taken into custody by the CBI on Monday in connection with the case, following multiple rounds of questioning over the past two weeks.

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