Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) subjected former principal of the RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh to marathon grilling for sixth consecutive day on Wednesday trouble continued to pile up for him with a former Superintendent of the Hospital moving the Calcutta High Court seeking and order for the Enforcement Department to investigate the financial irregularities that had been taking place in the medical college for the past several years.

The petition was filed by Dr Akhtar Ali a former superintendant of the hospital who has claimed that he had brought the alleged financial issues before the vigilance commission and the State Health Department but nothing happened.

“Sandip Ghosh has so much of clout that he was transferred twice and was reinstated in his post within a matter of days” adding “as I raised my voice I was transferred out of the college and at present I fear for my life after moving the High Court as I am receiving threats.”

Incidentally after about an year of such issues being raised the State Government formed a Special Investigation Team comprising several senior IPS officers on Monday to look into the alleged complaints of financial irregularities. The SIT has issued summons to Sandip Ghosh to appear before it.

“This is a ploy to take him into custody and destroy evidence before CBI or any other agency can get hold of him … so this petition has been filed before the High Court so that this medical scam that has plagued the entire Health Department and all the State-owned hospitals gets brushed under the carpet like the previous scams … this has to be unearthed because the doctors murder

is not a one-off case … it should be found out whether some people were trying to silence her,”

said one of the lawyers of Ali adding the scam could run into hundreds of crores and that Ghosh was only one of many fixers that was working for a Statewide “medical mafia.”