Akhtar Ali, the former administrative staff of Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital who leaked evidence of corruption against the institution’s former principal, Dr Sandip Ghosh, after the August 2024 rape and murder of a trainee doctor, was remanded in judicial custody on Tuesday after he surrendered before a designated Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court, lawyers said.
“On February 6, the CBI court in Kolkata issued an arrest warrant against Ali, a former non-medical deputy superintendent of the hospital, for failing to appear despite receiving five summon notices. He surrendered on Tuesday and was remanded in judicial custody till February 17,” a lawyer representing CBI said, requesting anonymity.
Ali’s counsel told the court on February 6 that he had met with an accident at home and was hospitalised with spinal injuries but the judge rejected his bail prayer. Although Ali appeared before the media after the trainee doctor’s death as a “whistle blower”, the CBI filed a case against him stating that he, too, was involved in the same corruption.
Before being taken to a correctional home on Tuesday, Ali told the media in the court premises that he concealed some facts when CBI questioned him. “When CBI officials questioned me about my bank accounts I made a childish mistake by not telling them that I had borrowed some money for my brother’s treatment,” Ali said.
In a parallel development on February 6, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is also investigating the alleged...
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