Key Takeaways
- CBI grills Left leader Meenakhi Mukherjee in connection with the murder of a doctor at RG Kar Hospital.
- ED summons Trinamool Congress MLA Dr Sudipto Roy in connection with the financial irregularities at RG Kar Hospital.
- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing the money trails of the alleged financial irregularities in RG Kar Hospital during the tenure of arrested former hospital chief Sandip Ghosh.
Kolkata: Communist Party of India (Marxist) youth wing leader Meenakhi Mukherjee on Thursday appeared before a CBI investigation team at the agency’s city office in connection with the murder of a doctor and the subsequent vandalism at the RG Kar Hospital, sources said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Trinamool Congress MLA Dr Sudipto Roy, who was previously the head of the patient welfare committee at RG Kar Hospital.
Democratic Youth Federation of India’s top leader Mukherjee, before entering Central Bureau of Investigation’s CGO Complex at Salt Lake, told reporters that they wanted justice for RG Kar Hospital victim.
“We want punishment for the culprits of the killers of the lady medic and seek quick justice and for this I am here at the CBI office,” said the Leftist leader, who has remained on the forefront of the movement seeking justice for the murdered doctor.
Mukherjee, along with her followers, was seen protesting on August 9 in front of R G Kar Hospital while police were taking away the body of the medic.
Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday summoned Trinamool Congress MLA Dr Sudipto Roy, whose houses and nursing home and other property were searched by both ED and CBI last week. During the raid, the ED seized Dr Sudipto Roy’s mobile and other digital equipment.
Roy, chairman of the now-dissolved Rogi Kalyan Samiti in the RG Kar Hospital, is the MLA from Serampore in Hooghly.
The ED is probing the money trails of the alleged financial irregularities in RG Kar Hospital during the tenure of arrested former hospital chief Sandip Ghosh. Ghosh has been arrested both in the murder case and monetary scam.
