CBI gets clues on how Sandip Ghosh-Ashish Pandey Nexus accepted cash through paper leaks

The CBI officials probing the financial irregularities case at the RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata have received concrete evidence of how former principal Sandip Ghosh, through his domestic servant Ashish Pandey, accepted cash by passing on questionnaires to medical students willing to pay for easy Success.

While the CBI is conducting parallel investigations against Ghosh in the financial irregularities cases and the brutal rape and murder of the junior doctor, the investigating officers have also taken Pandey into custody in financial irregularities cases.

Sources said that through Pandey's interrogation, the officials got information about how Ghosh depended on Pandey's recommendation to decide the exam success of the medical students.

Ghosh and Pandey's bank accounts are being scanned by the CBI to find further clues about such illegal transactions. Pandey is among the 10 doctors of RG Kar who were expelled by the college authorities, according to a notification issued by the college authorities on Saturday evening.

Sources said that apart from Pandey, the officials were also able to trace Ghosh's links with a number of influential people within the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC), all of whom are currently under the CBI's control.

Other allegations against Ghosh include manipulating the tender system, awarding infrastructure-related contracts from RG Kar to private agencies instead of the state public works department, smuggling biomedical waste outside and selling organs of unknown bodies that end up in the RG Kar mortuary for autopsy purposes.

Ghosh, Pandey and three others arrested by the CBI in the financial irregularities case will be produced before a special court in Kolkata on Monday.

Meanwhile, sources said Ghosh was investigated several times by CBI officials at a correctional center in south Kolkata where he is now lodged.

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