Charges framed against RG Kar Medical College's ex-principal in financial irregularities case

Kolkata, Jul 14 (PTI) A special CBI court on Monday framed charges against RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's former principal Sandip Ghosh and four others in a financial irregularities case.

Ghosh was the principal of the medical college when an on-duty doctor was raped and murdered on the campus on August 9.

He was arrested by the CBI in the financial irregularities case amid the protests over the rape and murder.

The special court ordered framing of charges under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act against Ghosh, Afsar Ali, Biplab Singh, Suman Hazra and Asish Pande.

The court said the trial in the case will commence on July 22.

The Calcutta High Court had on August 23 transferred the probe into the alleged financial irregularities from a state-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to the CBI.

Ghosh's lawyer Zohaib Rauf claimed that his client was made a scapegoat, and the trial will prove that there were no irregularities committed by him.

Ghosh is at present in judicial custody.

The CBI had filed a charge sheet in the case on November 29.

Ghosh was also accused of wiping out evidence in the rape-murder case and is on bail in that case.

Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, was convicted in the rape and murder case and sentenced to imprisonment till the end of his natural life.

The CBI, which is also investigating the rape-murder, is conducting further probe into the case. PTI AMR SMY SOM