Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and Abhijit Mondal, Officer-in-Charge of Tala police station, have been remanded to CBI custody until September 25. The pair was produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) in Sealdah on Friday. The CBI has sought permission to conduct a Narco test on Sandip Ghosh and a polygraph test for Abhijit Mondal. The hearing for the same is scheduled for September 23 at the Sealdah court.

The CBI intends to carry out these tests outside of Bengal.

RG Kar Hospital Case: CBI Interrogates TMC Youth Leader

This development comes after the central agency on Thursday interrogated Ashish Pandey, a youth leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and a house staff member at RG Kar Medical College, in connection with the rape and murder of the trainee doctor. An officer told news agency PTI that Pandey was questioned for several hours at the CBI’s CGO Complex office and left late last night. His phone number was found in the call lists of multiple individuals, raising questions about his activities on the day the doctor’s body was discovered. Notably, Pandey checked into a hotel in Salt Lake with a female acquaintance on the same day the trainee doctor’s body was located. 

“We are trying to ascertain his activities on that day,” the CBI officer stated, as per PTI. The agency has also summoned hotel authorities for information regarding Pandey’s bookings and payments. According to the officer, the hotel room was reserved through an app, with Pandey checking in on August 9 and departing the following morning. “We are trying to find out what was the purpose of his stay there,” the officer added.

The investigation has drawn national outrage following the discovery of the trainee doctor’s body at the hospital on August 9.

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Former RG Kar Principal Sandip Ghosh’s Medical Registration Cancelled

In a separate development, the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) on Thursday announced the cancellation of Sandip Ghosh’s registration as a medical practitioner. Ghosh, currently in CBI custody, has been removed from the list of registered medical practitioners maintained by the WBMC. His medical licence was revoked under various provisions of the Bengal Medical Act of 1914, effectively barring him from practising as an orthopaedic surgeon.

Ghosh was arrested on  September 2 for his alleged involvement in financial irregularities at the hospital, alongside accusations of evidence tampering in the ongoing rape-murder case.