The West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has cancelled the registration of Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital where a trainee doctor was raped and murdered on August 9. The move comes following his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a rape-murder case and allegations of financial irregularities.
He has been removed from the list of Registered Medical Practitioners maintained by the WBMC, an official was quoted by PTI as saying. His licence was cancelled under various provisions of the Bengal Medical Act, 1914.
Ghosh, who is currently in CBI custody, was served a show-cause notice 13 days ago after the Bengal chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) had urged the WBMC to revoke Ghosh’s medical registration. On September 7, the WBMC had issued a show-cause notice to Ghosh asking him to explain within three days why his registration should not be cancelled. Ghosh did not respond to the notice.
Ghosh was arrested by the central probe agency in connection with the alleged financial irregularities at the RG Kar Hospital on September 2. The CBI has accused Sandip Ghosh of being involved in causing “considerable delay in registration of FIR in conspiracy with others” and thereby “leading to deliberate destruction of vital evidence”.
Meanwhile, the father of the Kolkata rape and murder victim on Wednesday said his daughter would have been alive had the West Bengal government taken action against Sandip Ghosh earlier. The allegations of financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital came to light after the body of a woman doctor was found there on August 9.
“In the year 2021, RG Kar Hospital’s former principal, Sandip Ghosh, was accused was financial irregularities at the institute. Had the Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee) taken action against Ghosh then, my daughter would have been alive today,” the father of the victim told reporters.
(With PTI inputs)
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