The CBI has uncovered a massive racket involving bribes for transfer postings and an illegal medical syndicate operating at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a 31-year-old junior doctor was raped and murdered on August 9.
The investigation has revealed that this alleged racket has been active for years and extends to other state-run medical colleges.
The CBI has found that medicines worth crores of rupees, purchased by the state government, were diverted to private medical stores through this illicit network.
Sources within the CBI suggest that the victim, who had protested against these malpractices at various forums, may have been targeted in connection with her subsequent rape and murder.
The investigation has also hinted at involvement of senior state government officials in the scandal.
The CBI is actively seeking other doctors and individuals implicated in the scam.
A senior CBI officer said, “We have come to know that a racket of doctors and the administration was involved in the transfer posting system of doctors in lieu of money. Those doctors who want to be transferred to medical colleges of their own choice were asked to shell out around Rs 20- Rs 30 lakh and needed to provide it to the racketeers to get themselves posted in those colleges. This had irked the victim greatly and she protested vehemently against this illegal system in various forums.”
CBI questioned RG Kar’s former principal Dr. Sandip Ghosh for the fourth consecutive day. Dr Ghosh was removed from the post of principal of the Medical College after the doctors’ protest pleading investigation on the young doctor’s rape and murder.
Ghosh was asked to specify his role after getting the news of the death of the doctor, who he had contacted and why he made the parents wait for nearly three hours, he said.
The ex-principal was also questioned who had ordered the renovation of the rooms near the seminar hall at the emergency building of the hospital after the incident.
Ghosh has been questioned for several hours in the last few days by the CBI officers.
The officers of the central probe agency were also checking his mobile phone calls as well as his WhatsApp chat list.
