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Kolkata: The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a petition by former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Dr Sandip Ghosh challenging the Calcutta High Court order initiating a CBI probe into alleged financial irregularities at the state-run facility during his tenure...
According to its remand application filed in a special CBI court on 3 September, a copy of which is with ThePrint, the central investigation agency has accused Ghosh of causing diversion of funds and receiving kickbacks on account of such diversions...
The CBI has booked Ghosh and three others under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 409 (criminal breach of trust) and 467 (forgery) of the IPC and sections 7 (bribery) and 13(2) (criminal misconduct) of the Prevention of Corruption Act based on an FIR lodged against him by Kolkata Police at Tala police station on 19 August...
A prima facie investigation has revealed that the process adopted by Ghosh, as principal of RG Kar, for the award of contracts to companies linked to Biplab Singha was not transparent, the CBI contended in its remand application...
The CBI alleges Ghosh favoured his close aide Afsar Ali Khan in awarding the contract of caf at the premises of RG Kar to a firm of which Khans wife is the proprietor...
