Following well over 12 hours of rigorous searching, the Central Bureau of Investigation team probing financial irregularities at R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata finally called off the search at the residence of former principal Sandip Ghosh, an embattled man.
At about 8:50 pm, CBI officers left from Ghosh's residence in Beliaghata, central Kolkata, with bundles of documents that were reportedly seized during their operation. But they declined to comment on the outcome of their search.
Sources close to the probe have said the CBI team not only searched the premises but also interrogated Ghosh simultaneously during the operation.
A team of seven CBI officials, including women officers, reached Ghosh's residence at around 6.50 a.m. on Sunday. They were, however, made to wait outside for close to 90 hours before they were finally allowed entry.
During this period of waiting, one of the CBI officers tried to contact Ghosh on his mobile phone several times, but his calls were not answered. The officer also spoke with the police officers and security persons posted outside the residence of Ghosh. At about 1:30 p.m., six more CBI officials joined the raiding team.
The CBI teams conducted searches at the residence and other places of Ghosh simultaneously. According to reports, the Forensic Medicine department demonstrator of that institution was taken to the CBI's Nizam Palace office on Sunday after an eight-hour search at his Kestopur residence on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. It is yet to be clear whether he was arrested or detained for interrogation.
Ghosh had already been questioned by CBI's special crime unit for nine days at a stretch since August 16 in the case of rape and murder of a woman junior doctor from R.G. Kar earlier this month. He was grilled for an average of 12 to 14 hours every day. The agency officials are trying to establish if there are any links in these two cases—the rape and murder case, and the financial irregularities probe—sources said.
