Kolkata: Sandip Ghosh, ex-principal of RG Kar Hospital, arrested by CBI

CBI has arrested Sandip Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, where a trainee doctor was allegedly murdered and raped on August 9. Ghosh has been arrested in connection with the alleged financial misconduct at the establishment, officials said.

Ghosh was questioned for the 15th day at the agency's Salt Lake office over the August 9 incident. He was later escorted to the CBI's Nizam Palace office in Kolkata which houses the agency's anti-corruption wing and was shown as arrested.

The hospital's former deputy superintendent Dr Akhtar Ali had lodged complaints of financial irregularities on multiple counts at the establishment during Ghosh's tenure as principal. Ghosh was asked to go on leave by the state government after the murder of the trainee doctor came to light.

(With inputs from PTI)