RG Kar rape-murder: Bengal Medical Council cancels Sandip Ghosh's registration

The West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) on Thursday withdrew the registration of Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Ghosh is currently under CBI’s custody over the rape and murder case of the 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar last month.

The former principal is no longer listed under Registered Medical Practitioners maintained by the WBMC.

His licence was cancelled under various provisions of the Bengal Medical Act, of 1914.

Ghosh, along with police officer Abhijit Mondal, has been accused of tampering with evidence. A remand note by the Central Bureau of Investigation notes that the ex-principal hurried the doctor’s cremation despite her parents’ demand for a second autopsy.

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‘Ghosh was taking orders from someone’

The probe body, on Wednesday, said that it has reasons to believe that Ghosh was deliberately missing from the crime scene and that he only arrived at the hospital after the police went.

CBI said that he had called Mondal multiple times and an analysis of his phone calls revealed that he was taking orders from “someone.”

During interrogation, the former RG Kar principal said that he had spoken to a number of officials following which he formed a three-member board of doctors. He then forwarded the details to West Bengal’s health department.

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Sandip Ghosh’s involvement in corruption inside the hospital is not new. The victim’s father, earlier this week, said that his “daughter would have been alive if Mamata Banerjee had taken action against Ghosh in 2021.”

In fact, a junior doctor protesting in Kolkata told Firstpost that RG Kar has long been the hub of corruption.

Dr Anustup Mukherjee from Kolkata Medical College and a representative of the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front, said, “There is nothing to deny the fact that the amount of financial scam that was going around in RGK for the last 3-4 years was huge.”