CBI Court: RG Kar ex-principal may get death penalty if found guilty

A CBI court, denying bail to former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, has observed that the nature and gravity of the accusation against him is grave and it can attract capital punishment if proved.

The CBI had arrested Ghosh and former officer in-charge of the Tala police station, Abhijit Mondal, for alleged tampering of evidence and delay in filing of FIR in the rape and murder of a doctor at the state-run hospital on August 9.

The court in its order, dictated on September 25, said it appeared from the case diary that the process of investigation by the central probe agency was in full swing.

Denying the bail prayer of Ghosh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate S Dey observed that the nature and gravity of the accusation was grave and if proved, it might attract capital punishment.

The judge said the court was of the opinion that “it would be injustice flouting the principle of equity to release the accused on bail”.

He said in the order that a person might commit an offence with the help of other/s, and there was no need to be present for the other accused at the place of occurrence. The court also rejected the bail prayer of Mondal.

It granted the CBI’s prayer for judicial custody of the two accused till September 30. Ghosh’s counsel claimed before the judge that he was falsely implicated and there was no act on his part to commit the crime as alleged.