Trinamool Congress leader Sudipto Roy arrives at Enforcement Directorate office in Kolkata
Sep 19, 2024
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 19 : Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sudipto Roy accompanied by his two daughters arrived at the Enforcement Directorate Office in Kolkata on Thursday.
ED had on Tuesday conducted raids at the residence of Roy, who is under the scanner of the central agency over the financial irregularities at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said.
The Trinamool MLA said, "Enforcement Directorate officials conducted a search in our house. They found nothing. They have taken some hospital documents with them. There was an employee named Akhtar Ali. He had complained. Based on his complaint the CBI and ED conducted raids. Three phones were seized one belonging to me and the other two belonging to my daughters because this is a rule. We are on the path of truth. My daughters are also doctors."
Roy, the MLA from Sreerampur said that he was Chairman at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and Kolkata Medical College.
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) had on Tuesday morning conducted search operations at various locations in Kolkata. One of the teams of the ED also conducted a search at the residence of Sudipto Roy, Trinamool Congress MLA.
Meanwhile, Junior doctors from the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front expressed dissatisfaction after officials failed to agree to all their demands following a meeting with Chief Secretary Manoj Pant at Nabanna on Wednesday evening.
Speaking to ANI, a junior doctor said, "When the meeting was going on, then the Chief Secretary agreed to accept all our demands, but after the meeting, our demands were refused as they did not focus on our demands. There were things that were not discussed; they asked us to mail. What is the point of writing mail after holding a meeting? What we wanted was not given to us, and they even refused to provide us in writing. We have submitted our demands, and our protest will continue because we are upset with the meeting."
Earlier this month, a team of ED carried out search at the esidence of the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, at Chinar Park in Kolkata.
ED had registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe money laundering charges against Sandip Ghosh in the financial irregularities case.
On September 10, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court remanded Sandip Ghosh and three others to judicial custody till September 23 in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital financial irregularities case.
The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Sandip Ghosh on September 2.
Ghosh was under investigation for alleged corruption and financial irregularities at the college and hospital, following a directive from a single bench of the Calcutta High Court, which ordered the CBI to probe the matter.
Earlier on August 26, the CBI also concluded a second round of polygraph tests on Dr Ghosh as part of their investigation into the rape-murder of a woman doctor at the institution.
A woman trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.