RG Kar ex-principal claims unawareness of doctor’s death until police complaint
Kolkata: Former principal of R G Kar Medical College, Sandip Ghosh, has maintained that he only learned about the death of a PGT doctor at around 10:20 am on August 9, 2024, nearly 50 minutes after a first-year PGT student discovered the doctor lying in the seminar hall.
Ghosh stated that he missed an earlier call at 10:00 am from Sumit Roy Tapadar, an associate professor of respiratory medicine at the hospital, because he was in the shower. Upon returning Tapadar’s call at 10:20 am, Ghosh claims that he first became aware of the incident.
Ghosh, who has been under investigation for 18 days by both the Kolkata Police and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), underwent two polygraph tests. He has consistently stuck to his timeline, stating that after learning of the death, he immediately contacted several people at the hospital, including the officer in charge of Tala police station.
The OC reportedly informed him at 10:30 am that he was already aware of the incident. Ghosh stated that he reached the hospital at around 11:00 am.
Investigators are also probing the presence of several individuals known to Ghosh, who were at the hospital before the victim's parents were notified of their daughter's death.
The CBI is scrutinising Ghosh's call records and questioning the hospital administrative officer, with plans to conduct further polygraph tests. Security guards on duty at the hospital's gates on the morning of August 9 are also being questioned as part of the investigation.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Nitin Gadkari says he was offered support for PM post, he declined
Nagpur, Sep 14: Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said a political leader once offered to support him if he were to enter the race for the Prime Minister's post, but he declined the offer stating that he did not nurse that ambition.
"I remember one incident -- I would not name anyone -- that person said `if you are going to become prime minister, we will support you," Gadkari said at a journalism awards function here, without specifying when the conversation took place.
"But, I asked why you should support me, and why should I take your support. To become the prime minister is not the aim in my life. I am loyal to my conviction and my organisation, and I am not going to compromise for any post because my conviction is foremost for me," the senior BJP leader added.
In his speech, Gadkari underlined the importance of ethics in both journalism and politics.
Recalling a meeting with a senior CPI functionary, Gadkari said he told the communist leader that late A B Bardhan was among the tallest politicians from Nagpur and Vidarbha.
When the leader expressed surprise saying that Bardhan was an opponent of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Gadkari said honest opposition should be respected.
"I said one should respect a person who opposes with honesty, because there is honesty in his opposition....one who opposes with dishonesty deserves no respect," said Gadkari.
Comrade Bardhan was faithful to his ideology, and politics as well as journalism now lack such people, he said.
Democracy will be successful only when all four pillars -- judiciary, executive, legislature and media -- follow ethics, the BJP leader further said.
