Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday received the West Bengal government’s approval to frame charges against former R.G. Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh in the multi-crore financial irregularities case. The permission to the ED to begin the charge-framing process against Ghosh was long held back by the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled and Mamata Banerjee-led government. However, after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, Chief Minister Suven…
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Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) West Bengal Governor R.N. Ravi on Saturday ordered a departmental probe against Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Dr Avik Dey, whose name had surfaced both in connection with the rape and murder of a woman junior doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in August 2024 and the multi-crore financial irregularities case linked to the institution.Dey, considered a close confidant of former R.G. Kar principal Sandip Ghosh, was also arrested by the C…
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Recent developments reported on the probe into the brutal rape and murder of a young junior doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, raise serious questions about governance, accountability, and the legacy of Mamata Banerjee’s rule in West Bengal. Administrative measures include the suspension of three senior IPS officers and intensified investigations into alleged irregularities involving Sandip Ghosh, the former superintendent at RG Kar Hospital.The…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to immediately seal all the areas in the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital that may be linked with the ghastly rape & murder of a junior woman doctor there in August 2024.A division bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, which had been recently assigned the matter, at the end of its first hearing, specially directed the agency to ensure that the s…
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) A new division bench of the Calcutta High Court, Justice Shampa Sarkar and Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, will hear on Tuesday the case on the 2024 ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital.As per the cause list of the Calcutta High Court, the hearing in the matter will start at 1 p.m.After the previous division bench headed by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha recused from hearing the matter on May 12, observing that “this impor…
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Monday gave formal permission to the ED to prosecute former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, who has been tainted in both the R.G. Kar financial irregularities case as well as the rape and murder of a junior doctor of the same hospital in August 2024. The announcement was made by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari by sharing the order granting formal permission to the ED on his social media handle.However, since t…
Kolkata, March 20 (IANS) The policemen of Tala police station under the Kolkata Police, on Friday, detained five persons for questioning in connection with the death of a person Arup Bandopadhyay after getting trapped in the elevator of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and remaining trapped there for more than an hour. Based on a general diary filed by Amal Bandopadhyay, the father of the deceased person, the police officers of the Tala police station had registered an …
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The ‘whistle-blower’ of RG Kar’s financial irregularities, Akhtar Ali, is in more trouble as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is going to frame charges against him. The central investigation agency filed an application in the Alipore CBI court on Tuesday in this regard. The court has allowed the agency to frame charges against him. According to the CBI, charges will be framed against the accused Akhtar Ali on February 25. The court also directed that Akhtar Ali wi…
Kolkata, Feb 16 (IANS) The trial process against Sandip Ghosh, the former and controversial principal of state-run R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, in connection with his alleged involvement in the multi-crore R. G. Kar financial irregularities case, could not begin at a special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata on Monday.Despite the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filing its first chargesheet in the matter at the special PMLA court on February 6…
Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) Former Deputy Superintendent of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Akhtar Ali, was sent to judicial custody by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Tuesday after he surrendered before it. After he appeared in the special CBI court in West Bengal’s Alipore, a bail application was made. However, the court rejected the application and sent Akhtar Ali to judicial custody till February 17. The CBI also opposed Akhtar Ali’s bail in the court.An arrest warra…