Sandip Ghosh was arrested by the CBI within the case on Monday
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court docket at present dismissed the petition of former RG Kar Medical School and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, who has discovered himself on the heart of a storm after a trainee physician was raped and murdered on the establishment final month, difficult a Calcutta Excessive Court docket order transferring the investigation into the corruption case towards him to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra additionally refused his plea to be added as a celebration to a petition alleging monetary irregularities on the institute throughout his tenure.
“As an accused, you don’t have any locus to intervene within the PIL the place the Calcutta excessive court docket is monitoring the investigation,” the bench mentioned.
The highest court docket additionally refused to take away some feedback by the Excessive Court docket linking the corruption allegations with the rape of the trainee physician in Kolkata on August 9.
The Calcutta Excessive Court docket had ordered the switch of the investigation into the alleged monetary irregularities on the state-run hospital, the place Ghosh had been the principal since 2021 – with a short hiatus in between – from a particular investigation staff to the CBI on August 23.
The order had come after a former deputy superintendent of the power, Dr Akhtar Ali, had sought an investigation into the alleged irregularities throughout Ghosh’s tenure as the top of the hospital.
Sandip Ghosh was arrested by the CBI within the case on Monday after being questioned a number of occasions in a span of two weeks.
In his petition earlier than the Supreme Court docket, Ghosh mentioned the Calcutta Excessive Court docket didn’t hear his aspect whereas ordering the CBI investigation into the corruption case towards him. He argued that he filed a petition within the Excessive Court docket looking for to make himself a celebration, but it surely was rejected. This, he claimed, proved that the rules of pure justice weren’t adopted.
