ED files chargesheet in R.G. Kar Hospital financial irregularities case

Key Highlights

• The ED filed the chargesheet before a special court in connection with a money laundering case lodged in the matter.
• Akhtar Ali, a former official at R. G.
• Kar Hospital, had prayed for a CBI investigation into alleged financial irregularities at the State-run facility during the tenure of Ghosh, which had been granted by the Calcutta High Court and the order was upheld by the Supreme Court.
• The ED had filed an ECIR (Enforcement Case Information Report), which is equivalent to a police FIR, over the alleged money trail in the case.
• It was during the principalship of Ghosh that the infamous rape and murder of a trainee doctor took place and her body was found in the conference room of the state-run facility in north Kolkata on August 9, 2024.