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

Kolkata, October 6 (IANS) The CBI officials probing the case of financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata have come across concrete evidence of how former principal Sandip Ghosh accepted cash through his domestic servant Ashish Pandey, by leaking question papers to medical students who are happy to pay money 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 secured 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. According to sources, apart from Pandey, the officials were also able to trace Ghosh's links with several influential people within the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC), all of whom are currently under the CBI's radar. Other allegations against Ghosh include manipulating the tender system and 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 unidentified bodies to be sent to the state for post-mortem RG Kar mortuary come.

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 home in south Kolkata and he is now lodged.