Sealdah court granted bail to Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mondol after CBI fails to submit chargesheet.

News Mania Desk / Piyal Chatterjee / 13th December 2024

Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata’s state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, and Abhijit Mondol, the former officer in charge of the Tala police station, were granted bail on Friday by a local court in Sealdah in connection with the rape and murder of a young doctor on campus.

The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) granted bail to Sandip Ghosh and Abhijit Mondol after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) failed to produce a chargesheet within the required 90-day term.The court granted them bail on a surety bond of Rs 2,000 apiece and ordered the accused to appear before the CBI when summoned by the central agency. However, Ghosh will remain in jail in another case of suspected financial.

The CBI’s investigating officer told the court that the investigation into the rape and murder of R G Kar is still ongoing.Massive protests erupted across the country after the atrocity occurred on August 9, this year. The Kolkata police apprehended Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer, the day after the junior doctor was raped and murdered.

The CBI later detained Sandip Ghosh for allegedly deleting evidence in the case. Mondal has been accused of failing to file a FIR in the rape and murder of a doctor at R G Kar Hospital.The victim’s mother reacted to the bail judgment by saying, “We are really disheartened. This occurred solely because the CBI did not file a chargesheet.”

Utpal Bandhopadhay, one of the agitating doctors, said he is shocked at the news. “We can imagine what the family is going through now and we are with the family as we are Abhaya’s family. We will once again begin our protests. We want to know the secret behind why the CBI did not submit any chargesheet.”

While Ghosh was brought out of court, bystanders chanted, “We condemn Sandip Ghosh.”

Previously, the CBI had submitted before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Sealdah court that they had “telephonic evidence” against the two accused. “Evidence has come on record that the accused persons wanted to hush up and downplay the incident as there are a number of recorded incriminating calls as well as videos in the extracted data,” the agency’s submission had read. They had also noted that both the accused denied permission for a polygraph test.