RG Kar rape and murder case: Accused ex-school principal Sandip Ghosh is in trouble again after lie detector test | News from India

The RG Kar Medical College and Hospital is under intense surveillance following the alleged rape and murder of a doctor student in the seminar hall on August 9. Subsequently, former principal Sandip Ghosh and six others were taken into custody.

Sandip Ghosh is one of seven accused in CBI custody for the brutal rape and murder of a student doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.

Calcutta: Sandip Ghosh, the notorious former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, where a trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered on August 9, now faces further trouble after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a complaint against him on Saturday over alleged financial irregularities during his tenure.

The move came on the orders of the Calcutta High Court, which had transferred the investigation to the agency from a state-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). The move also coincides with the day the central agency began conducting lie detector tests on prime accused Sanjay Roy and six others named in the rape and murder case that has sparked outrage and protests across the country.

#REGARD | Kolkata: CBI officials and a CBI lawyer filed a copy of the FIR in the corruption case against former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh before the Chief Magistrate of the Alipore court after the Calcutta High Court set up a single bench yesterday. pic.twitter.com/7lSkpldL2H

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The lie detector test for Sanjay Roy, the main accused, will be conducted in the jail where he is being held. Meanwhile, the other six persons, including former school principal Sandip Ghosh, four doctors who were on duty on the night of the incident and a volunteer, will be tested at the agency's office in Kolkata.

According to officials, Ghosh arrived at the CBI office in the CGO complex in Salt Lake for the ninth consecutive day on Saturday morning and was subsequently taken for a lie detector test.

Among those undergoing the lie detector test are two first-year postgraduate trainees whose fingerprints were allegedly found in the seminar room of the government medical facility where the doctor's body was also discovered, an official said.

PTI reported that a team of polygraph specialists from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Delhi flew to Kolkata to conduct the tests.

On Thursday, the CBI informed the Supreme Court that the local police had tried to cover up the alleged rape and murder of the doctor-graduate as the crime scene had already been tampered with by the time the federal agency took over the investigation. The body of the aspiring doctor with severe injuries was found in a seminar room of the hospital's pulmonary department on the morning of August 9. Roy was arrested the next day.

The CBI on Saturday received the necessary documents from the SIT and re-registered the FIR. This action follows a direction from the Supreme Court in response to a petition by Akhtar Ali, former deputy director of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who had sought an Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe into alleged financial malpractices at the college during Ghosh's tenure.

The Supreme Court has directed the CBI to submit a progress report on the investigation within three weeks. A follow-up hearing to review the findings is scheduled for September 17.

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