Sandip Ghosh rigged RG Kar’s house staff selections, finds CBI probe

Sandip Ghosh rigged RG Kar’s house staff selections, finds CBI probe

 RohitKhanna@timesofindia.com 

Kolkata : CBI’s probe into financial irregularities of RG Kar Hospital details how arrested exprincipal Sandip Ghosh and his cronies minted money from diverse sources, including manipulating students’ results and appointing “candidates of his choice” as house staff – internships after completion of MBBS. 

In submissions to the special CBI court that remanded Ghosh in custody a few days ago, the agency said it suspected Ghosh “surpassed the process and straight away appointed house staff of his choice” without “adopting a transparent method” or going through any hospital panel. The agency has dug into such recruitments made in 2022 and 2023. The appointment orders only mention final marks of the candidates. Doctors at RG Kar said they knew of no selection panel for house staff. According to CBI, Ghosh had introduced a system of “interviews” for the candidates. Later, a list of house staff was prepared by him and many meritorious students were left out. CBI officers have reasons to believe that scores from such “fictitious interviews” might have been added to the MBBS marks of the candidates picked against payments to Ghosh’s cronies.

 The corruption, CBI found, was even more deeprooted and spread to other areas, including “collusive bidding” and “bid rigging” in every tender process for hospital equipment and services. Investigators have come across fake companies, owned by Biplav Singha and his relatives, that took part in the tendering process to help his firm Maa Tara Traders bag the contracts. 

Ghosh: Health dept okayed demolition 

 Former RG Kar principal Sandip Ghosh said he secured approval of senior officials of the Bengal health department before issuing orders on Aug 10 to demolish rooms near the hospital’s seminar hall, where a junior doctor was raped and killed the previous day, CBI officials said. Ghosh said he had received a 10-point charter of demands from resident doctors on Aug 10, including a duty room with proper toilet near the seminar hal