Kolkata rape-murder: CBI searches residence of former RG Kar Medical College principal
The CBI is also targeting 14 other locations across the city, including those connected to the accused and their associates.
CBI team at Sandip Ghosh's residence in Kolkata (ANI)
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted a search operation at the residence of Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, as a part of an investigation into alleged financial irregularities at the institute during Ghosh’s tenure.
The anti-corruption unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is also searching the residences and offices of those engaged in supplying materials for management and care of patients.
At least seven officers of the central probe agency have been questioning Ghosh at his Beliaghata residence since 8 am, while others are grilling Vashisth, the former medical superintendent and vice principal of the hospital, and another professor of the forensic department of the medical establishment, among others, they said.
Accompanied by a huge team of central forces, the CBI team, which reached Ghosh's residence around 6 am, was made to wait for nearly one-and-half hours before he opened the doors, the officials said.
Another team of CBI officers also conducted searches at the ex-principal's office at the hospital and also went to the canteen in the academic building.
A postgraduate trainee woman doctor was allegedly raped and murder in the seminar hall of the hospital on August 9, following which a Kolkata Police civic volunteer was arrested.
The gruesome crime resulted in nationwide protests by doctors and citizens.
On the direction of the Calcutta High Court, the CBI registered cases into the killing as well as alleged financial irregularities.