Tainted officials, profs still at RG Kar, CBI tells state. No such letter received, says govt
Times of India | 17 October 2024The agency on Wednesday also spoke to four office bearers of National Medical College and Hospital, where former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh was posted as the assistant professor in the orthopaedic department before being transferred to Murshidabad Medical College and then to RG Kar.
In the letter to principal secretary of health Narayan Swaroop Nigam, the agency asked why Som was not removed from his post. The letter names professors and officials from RG Kar, including Ghosh and Som, accused of being involved in corruption.
Sujata denied the allegations and claimed she was never involved in any purchase or tendering process and discharged her duties only as the unit head at the hospital.
Claiming they were unaware of any such letter from the CBI, state officials said it was “out of place” for a probe agency to seek explanation of department action or inaction, based on their findings on an ongoing criminal case that was before the court. “Probe agencies, in cases involving govt functionaries, usually share their findings that can form the basis of a departmental probe. Action on govt officials can be taken only under applicable service rules,” an official said.
Som, former forensic medicine demonstrator of RG Kar and close to former principal Sandip Ghosh, came under CBI radar after allegations of financial irregularities at the hospital surfaced. A day after the CBI registered an FIR in the financial irregularities, anti-corruption branch officers searched Som’s Kestopur home. Som, along with others, was also reportedly seen in a video of the RG Kar seminar hall. Also a member of RG Kar Medical College Council and part of the college’s National Medical Commission, Som was assigned a cabin near Ghosh’s room.
Former deputy superintendent of RG Kar Akhtar Ali had previously raised concerns against ex-principal Ghosh and others for corruption.
