Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told a court that the ex-principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh, twisted the process for the recruitment of medical house staff at the hospital to appoint doctors of his choice.
The agency also accused him of granting the hospital’s contracts to his cronies in violation of rules.
Per the agency, Dr Sandip Ghosh introduced an opaque system of interviews for the appointment of house staff. There were no panel of interviewers at the hospital. Only the final marks of the interviews were released before recruitment, TOI reported.
The agency accused Sandip Ghosh of preparing a list of house staff, which excluded many deserving trainee doctors.
The alleged financial irregularities at the hospital came under the scanner after the rape and murder of a doctor in the seminar room of the state-run facility. The agency arrested Sandip Ghosh last month in the financial irregularities case.
The CBI is probing how his security guard’s wife, Nargis, bagged the hospital canteen’s contract.
Per the agency, the deal was awarded to her company Eshan Cafe in violation of the rules. It said the canteen deal was given to her in a predetermined manner and the bid amount was found handwritten on the documents, reported TOI. Dr Sandip Ghosh even returned the non-refundable caution money to the security guard’s wife’s firm.
An officer, meanwhile, told PTI on Saturday that Ghosh had been operating a “criminal nexus” along with the other “co-accused” for “wrongful gains”.
