A team of Enforcement Directorate officials, on Friday reached the residence of Ramkrishna Das, father-in-law of Sandip Ghosh, former and controversial principal of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in connection with the investigation of financial irregularities at the hospital.
A team of central agency officials reached the residence of Das at Chandannagar in Hooghly district around noon. However, nobody was found at the residence and the local people informed the central agency officials that the house remained closed most of the time as the residents only visit the house during festivals.
The ED officials then went to nearby Baidyabati area in the same district and reached another person, Kunal Roy's residence, and started raid and search operations there.
Roy's exact connection with the said financial irregularities case was not known at the time of filing this report.
Three other teams of ED are conducting parallel raid and search operations at four places, including Ghosh's residence at Beliaghata in central Kolkata. Ghosh and three others are now in the custody of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which is conducting a parallel probe into the financial irregularities.
The CBI officials are also probing the case of ghastly rape and murder of a woman doctor of R.G. Kar.
The ED raids are being conducted on a day when the Supreme Court has already rejected Ghosh's plea challenging the earlier order by a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court directing a CBI probe in the R.G. Kar financial irregularities case.
ED has taken suo motu entry in the matter after filing an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) while the CBI probe in both cases is court-directed and court-monitored.
The bench, while ordering the CBI probe into the case of financial irregularities last month, noted that while the central agency is already probing the case for rape and murder, it would be best if the same agency does a parallel investigation into the case of financial irregularities in the same hospital.
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