Big step taken to serve justice to daughter of Bengal: Shehzad Poonawalla on arrest of Sandip Ghosh
New Delhi: With the arrest of the former principal of KG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla asserted that a big step has been taken to serve justice to the trainee doctor who was raped and murdered in the hospital premises on August 9.
Shehzad Poonawalla said, "A big step has been taken to serve justice to the daughter of Bengal when the CBI arrested Sandip Ghosh under the charges of corruption and financial irregularities. The BJP was alleging him of these charges from 2023. But no action was taken against him as he was getting protection from Mamata Banerjee's government. Today when he is arrested, it raises the question of when Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee will resign. Her leaders are threatening the protestors."
He further said that the priority of the Mamata Banerjee government was not the justice to the victim but to save Sandip Ghosh.
"When this case came to light, then within 4 hours this person was promoted. He had a big hold. Mamata Banerjee is taking about creating unrest in the country. The leaders of INDIA alliance who talk about sacing the constitution, whether in Kolkata or Kerala, they have become silent on speaking for women including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav," he added.
The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Dr Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College, along with three others, over alleged corruption and financial misconduct at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, according to sources cited by ANI.
Dr Ghosh was under investigation for alleged corruption and financial irregularities at the college and hospital, following a directive from a single bench of the Calcutta High Court, which ordered the CBI to probe the matter.
In addition to Dr Ghosh, two vendors, Biplav Singha and Suman Hazara, as well as Afsar Ali, the Additional Security to Dr Ghosh, have been arrested, the sources added.
On August 24, following the orders of the Calcutta High Court, an official FIR was registered by the CBI against Ghosh on the alleged corruption case.
Earlier on August 26, the CBI also concluded a second round of polygraph tests on Dr Ghosh as part of their investigation into the rape-murder of a woman doctor at the institution. The Calcutta High Court has granted the CBI three weeks to submit a progress report on the investigation, which is to be presented on September 17.
Earlier in the month, the Supreme Court ordered the security of Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital to be handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) while hearing the suo motu case concerning the incident. The trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
