The Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s probe against Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, has led officials to a bungalow in the Canning area of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district. The lavish property has been linked to Ghosh, who is under the scanner for alleged financial irregularities at the hospital. An aide of the Ghosh who was picked up by ED on Friday was taken to the property as part of the investigation.
The probe agency on Friday morning conducted raids at the residence of Sandip Ghosh and his three other close aides. Raids were conducted by ED at multiple locations in Kolkata and Howrah in connection with the RG Kar MCH money laundering case.
Following the raids, the probe agency detained Prasun Chatterjee, a close aide of Ghosh from his residence in South 24 Paragana district. He worked as a data entry operator at the National Medical College.
#WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal: Enforcement Directorate raid underway at the residence of former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh; latest visuals from his residence. pic.twitter.com/JSKSRNXzHS— ANI (@ANI) September 6, 2024
Following the detention, the probe agency sleuths took Chatterjee to Ghosh’s Bungalow as part of their investigation into the alleged financial irregularities in RG Kar Hospital.
Bungalow At Centre of ED Probe
In the middle of several hundred ‘bighas’ of vacant land in Narayanpur Mauza of Ghutiari Sharif of Canning-2, a green two-storied bungalow belonging to Sandip Ghosh has fueled the alleged financial scam probe at RG Kar Hospital.
The locals claimed that the bungalow, named ‘Sangeeta Sandip Villa’, belongs to Ghosh as they spotted him visiting the place with his wife and family. They added that Sandip Ghosh named the bungalow after his and his wife’s name- Sangeeta Ghosh, reported local media outlet, Ananda Bazar.
Sandip’s name came to the fore after the investigation linked to a female medic’s rape and murder case highlighted illegal activities during Ghosh’s tenure as principal of the government-run institution.
He served as the principal of the Hospital from February 2021 to September 2023. In October last year, he was transferred, but within a month, his appointment was reinstated to the position which he held until the day the young trainee doctor was raped and murdered in the facility.
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