With the CBI submitting all the relevant documents to the accused in the RG Kar Hospital financial irregularities case, the special court in Alipore is all set to begin framing the charges as early as this week. On Saturday, the CBI submitted all the relevant documents, including the evidence, to prime accused Dr Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and other accused in the presence of their counsels.

The CBI, which is probing the financial irregularities in the state-run RG Kar hospital in the wake of the rape and murder of a junior doctor there, had submitted a chargesheet against former principal Ghosh, doctor and TMC youth leader Ashish Pandey and three others — Biplab Singh, Afsar Ali, and Suman Hazra — in connection with the alleged financial irregularities in November last year.

Last Thursday, the trial court had pulled up the CBI for not informing the trial court about the West Bengal government’s giving sanction to prosecute Dr Ghosh and Pandey in the corruption case, and ordered the central agency to submit in writing the reason why it failed to do so. The court had directed the probe agency to bring all evidence, including electronic evidence, to the court and hand over copies of the documents to all the accused so that the charges could be framed and the trial could begin soon.

On Friday the Calcutta High Court had rejected a plea by Sandip Ghosh for more time before charges are framed against him in the case. Turning down the former principal’s plea, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh observed that there had been a “systematic delay” in hearing the case on alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar. Justice Ghosh has directed CBI to complete the framing of charges by February 6.