'CBI Has Not Arrested Me, Don't Spread Rumours': RG Kar Ex-Principal Sandip Ghosh Quizzed For Third Straight Day

The CBI on Sunday continued their grilling of former principal Dr Sandip Ghosh for a third straight day, in the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. His phone records are being scanned to ascertain if it was on his instructions that the trainee doctor’s death was first called a “suicide”, officials said.

“The CBI has not arrested me… I was not made to sit face-to-face with Sanjay Roy (the main accused who has been arrested in the case),” said the desperate man, who was seen almost pleading with the media. “Don’t spread rumours about me,” he said, as he ran towards the CBI’s office at CGO complex in Salt Lake in the pouring rain.

Considered the “most powerful” at the RG Kar hospital till recently, it is now evident that the noose is tightening around him. Officials are questioning him on the conduct of the hospital management after the trainee doctor’s body was found.

The woman’s family members have expressed apprehensions she was “silenced” on behalf of “some powerful person”, and that Roy was simply a scapegoat or acting at someone’s behest.

CBI scanning phone records

The CBI is also scanning Dr Ghosh’s phone records. Officials are trying to ascertain if it was on his instructions that the hospital’s additional superintendent floated the death by suicide theory.

Head of the chest medicine department Arunav Chowdhary has reportedly told the CBI that he did not ask the assistant superintendent call it death by suicide. Sources said the “renovation work” near the crime scene was carried out on the orders of the former principal.

The CBI is now quizzing him about these statements made by the heads of departments and senior doctors. Sources further said he is being asked about the sequence of events on August 9, from the time the body was discovered to the first call to the police 40 minutes later.

Officials want to know if Dr Ghosh first received the information about the body via a phone call or a text/WhatsApp message. Any such text or message can be crucial evidence in the case.

The CBI also called in an assistant sub-inspector of the Kolkata Police for questioning. Roy used to live at his barracks at the 4th Battalion campus. The victim’s driver was also asked to appear before the central agency, in an attempt to piece together the motive behind the crime.