A court here on Monday ordered the home department to remove the superintendent of Calcutta’s Presidency Jail from duty for failing to present before the court an accused in a deposit mobilisation fraud on October 3.

The order was issued by additional district and sessions judge of Tamluk (third court) Mou Chatterjee. The accused is Manoranjan Roy, the managing director of now-defunct Pincon Spirits, a firm based in Calcutta.

The ruling was in connection with a judgment passed on October 3 sentencing eight officials of Pincon Spirits to life imprisonment for duping investors of over Rs 864 crore across 21 states, including Bengal, in 2015 .

Manoranjan had appeared for the ruling online from a private hospital in Calcutta. The ruling said the Presidency Jail authorities did not inform the court that the accused would not appear in person to hear the verdict.

The court has also ordered the state health department to investigate the hospital.