Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday (January 28) told the Calcutta High Court that it has received the requisite sanction from the West Bengal government to prosecute former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh in an alleged financial irregularities case.
The CBI told Justice Tirthankar Ghosh that it has received sanction from the state government of West Bengal for prosecution of Ghosh and another former official and it also submitted before the court a report on the progress of the investigation in the case, which stated that a cxhargesheet in the case was filed before the special court on November 29 last year.
What did the High Court direct?
The High Court directed the special court hearing the alleged financial irregularities case to make all endeavour for framing of charges in the case within one week from the next date of hearing before it, news agency PTI reported.
ED has also filed an ECIR, High Court was informed
The High Court was also informed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has also filed an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) – equivalent to a police FIR – over the alleged money trail in the case and the ED has conducted 22 searches and investigation is being carried out to trace the money trail in respect of the accused persons.
The High Court had earlier on a plea filed by former hospital official Akhtar Ali, filed in the wake of protests over the rape and murder of an on-duty woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s seminar room on August 9 last year, had ordered the CBI to probe the alleged financial irregularities.
Ghosh was later arrested by the CBI in the financial irregularities case and he is currently lodged in judicial custody.
Sealdah court recently awarded convict Roy life imprisonment until death
A Sealdah trial court recently convicted prime accused Sanjay Roy in the rape and murder case of the on-duty woman doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and awarded him life imprisonment until death. The trial court refused to award capital punishment to Roy, saying that the case did not meet the stringent criteria for being classified as “rarest of the rare” case.
