New Delhi: The CBI has submitted to the court that Sandip Ghosh, former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal, was deliberately absent from the crime scene rather than keeping a close watch on the process, Times of India reported.
The CBI believes that Ghosh arrived at the hospital only after the cops and the OC of homicide (detective department) had reached the crime scene. Before that, Ghosh spoke to Tala OC Abhijit Mandal a number of times. Besides, he had also spoken to several hospital officials. The CBI officials have analysed the details of his calls and have a suspicion that he was in touch with someone else on phone and was taking orders, the report added.
It has already been alleged by the CBI that there was tampering with the scene of the crime. As the officials grilled Ghosh, they asked him a number of questions to know what he did just after coming to know about the incident. During the CBI interrogation, Ghosh said that he had spoken to some officials and set up a three-member board of doctors. The health department was given all the details and the meeting of the board of doctors was called at 5pm, he told the interrogators.
Ghosh has been arrested by the CBI in connection with the rape-murder of the 31-year-old junior doctor. He is also facing charges of financial irregularities and is under custody. And now he faces charges of tampering with the evidence and hatching a criminal plot. The medics and the victim’s parents had demanded Ghosh’s arrest for a thorough probe.
Ghosh and Abhijit Mondal, the former SHO of Tala police station, have been remanded in CBI custody for three days. Along with Ghosh, it is suspected that Mondal also destroyed evidence that could have been crucial in the rape-murder of the doctor on August 9. The CBI has also raised hackles over Kolkata police’s handling of the case.
The arrests of Ghosh and Mondal came following the arrest of civic volunteer Sanjay Roy, the accused in the rape-murder case, by Kolkata police.
