NEW DELHI: Former principal of RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh was granted bail by Sealdah court on Friday. Along with Ghosh, Tala police station’s former officer-in-charge Abhijit Mondal was also granted bail.
The relief for the two came as the Central Bureau of India (CBI) failed to file a chargesheet within 90 90-day period.
The development comes as senior lawyer Vrinda Grover decided to represent no longer the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder victim’s family.
The RG Kar case came to light when a trainee doctor was found dead in the chest department auditorium on August 10. It surfaced that she was allegedly raped and killed by a civic volunteer Sanjay Roy in the intervening night of August 9-10.
Ghosh was also under scanner in the case for alleged delay in the probe. In between, the Calcutta High Court ordered a probe into alleged financial irregularities in hospital during his tenure.
Ghosh served as principal of RG Kar Medical College from February 2021 to September 2023. He was transferred from RG Kar in October last year but inexplicably returned to that position within a month.
He was posted as the principal of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital within hours of his resignation in August this year, but was subsequently asked to go on an indefinite leave in the wake of the High Court’s objection to his appointment and massive protests.