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Kolkata doctor rape case: The Special CBI court in Kolkata on Friday granted bail to former principal RG Kar Hospital Sandip Ghosh in connection with the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at the establishment. The bail was granted as the Central Bureau of Investigation failed to file a charge sheet within the mandatory 90-day period. However, Ghosh will remain in jail for the time being due to ongoing investigations into the RG Kar Medical College Hospital corruption case, where he is also an accused. In its chargesheet, the CBI claimed that Ghosh allegedly helped two cartels in procuring hospital contracts. The CBI has named Ghosh, former House Staff of the medical college Ashish Kumar Pandey, and businessmen Biplab Singha of Maa Tara Traders, Suman Hazra of Hazra Medical and Afsar Ali Khan of Eshan Cafe, in the charge sheet. The CBI has alleged that Ghosh and Pandey appointed several doctors as house staff in violation of the rules. Ghosh helped two cartels -- one run by Singha and Hazra and the other by Khan -- in procuring several contracts of the hospital, the CBI has alleged in its chargesheet filed before a Special CBI court in Alipore. It should be noted here that the RG Kar Hospital hogged media attention when a trainee doctor was found dead in the chest department auditorium on August 10. It surfaced that she was allegedly raped and killed by a civic volunteer Sanjay Roy in the intervening night of August 9-10. Ghosh was also under scanner in the case for alleged delay in the probe. Ghosh had resigned as the principal of the state-run institute on August 12 in the aftermath of the incident. In between, the Calcutta High Court ordered a probe into alleged financial irregularities in the hospital during his tenure. (Inputs from Onkar Sarkar) ALSO READ: RG Kar rape case: Supreme Court asks National Task Force to submit its final report within 12 weeks None
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