Calcutta High Court Rejects Former RG Kar Principal Sandip Ghosh’s Plea

A vacation bench of Calcutta High Court rejected a plea by Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, seeking a fast-track hearing in the matter of the cancellation of his medical registration by the West Bengal Medical Council in September. Rejecting the plea, the vacation bench of Justice Partha Sarathi Sen observed that the matter is not so urgent that it has to be heard by the vacation bench when the operations of the regular bench of Calcutta High Court are closed because of the festive season vacation. Ghosh was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the financial irregularities case in R.G. Kar. Later, the CBI sleuths also showed him as arrested on charges of misleading the investigation and tampering with evidence when the probe was initially being carried out by the Kolkata Police.