Ex-RG Kar principal, police officer given bail in trainee doctor rape case
Hindustan TimesKolkata: The Sealdah court in Kolkata on Friday granted bail to Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and Abhijit Mondal, former officer-in-charge of Tala police station, as the central bureau of investigation failed to submit the charge-sheet against them within the 90-day period. Sandip Ghosh will not be released as the CBI has charged him with financial irregularities at the hospital during his tenure from 2021 to 2024 The federal agency is probing the rape and murder of a trainee female doctor at RG Kar Hospital on August 9 and had arrested Ghosh and Mondal. The agency couldn’t submit the charge sheet within the time frame, and they were granted bail by the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Sealdah,” said Zohaib Rauf, Ghosh’s advocate. The CBI has also filed a charge-sheet in connection with the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital during Ghosh’s tenure.