New Delhi: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (February 5) dismissed a petition filed by former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh seeking to postpone framing of charges in a case of alleged financial irregularities during his tenure.
Ghosh was principal of the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital when an on-duty doctor was raped and murder in the seminar room of the hospital on August 9 last year triggering outrage across the country.
Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, dismissing Ghosh’s plea, said that the special court orders cannot be interfered with by the high court.
What did Ghosh seek?
Ghosh, who is an accused in the alleged financial irregularities case and currently lodged in judicial custody in the case, sought a direction to the Alipore special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court to postpone framing of charges against him.
During the proceedings before the Alipore Special CBI court on Tuesday, the judge said that the hearing for framing of charges against the accused persons in the financial irregularities case will commence on Wednesday.
The hearing for framing of the charges in the case was adjourned by the trial court to Thursday, news agency PTI reported.
High Court ordered CBI investigation into alleged corruption at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
In the wake of protest by doctors against the rape and murder of the on-duty woman doctor at the state-run hospital, a plea was filed before the High Court by a former hospital official Akhtar Ali seeking investigation into the alleged financial irregularities during the tenure of Ghosh as the principal of the institute and the High Court directed the CBI to probe the allegations, following which CBI arrested Ghosh in the case.
Sealdah court recently convicted Roy in rape and murder case
A Sealdah trial court last month convicted prime accused Sanjay Roy for the offence of rape and murder of the on-duty woman doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 last year and awarded him life imprisonment until death. The trial court refused to award Roy death sentence, saying that the case did not meet the stringent criteria for being classified as “rarest of the rare” case.
