The CBI on Friday submitted a chargesheet against former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh and four others in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the hospital.

Among those named in the chargesheet is Asish Pandey, a former RG Kar house staff.

The court, however, did not take cognisance of the 80-page chargesheet as the CBI is still awaiting the state’s concurrence for chargesheeting Ghosh and Pandey, who are government officials.

The chargesheet, filed 87 days after the first arrest in the case, has charged Ghosh, Pandey and three others under sections of criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating, forgery, use of forged documents and the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The central agency is probing allegations, mostly against Ghosh, of inflated billing and granting favours to a set of vendors to run cafeterias and canteens in the hospital compound.

The agency has also arrested Ghosh in connection with the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.

The first complaint of financial irregularity was lodged by a former deputy superintendent of RG Kar, Akhtar Ali.

He has also accused the then principal Ghosh of being involved in selling unclaimed bodies and biomedical waste, which later became a vital part of the CBI investigation.

According to Ali’s complaint, Ghosh had illegally granted contracts to vendors of his choice without following the government protocol.

He has also accused the former principal of nepotism in selecting vendors, involving third parties for civil and electrical work instead of engaging the PWD, spending Covid funds on modernising his office and setting up a gym and illegally selling “used hazardous biomedical waste” through employees close to him.

Allegations of collecting illegal parking fees have also emerged against Ghosh.

Apart from Ghosh and Pandey, those named in the chargesheet are Afsar Ali Khan, who was Ghosh’s guard when he was the principal, and two vendors named Sumon Hazra and Biplav Singha.

Singha runs a company called “Ma Tara Traders”.

The company had allegedly bagged the contract of supplying medical equipment to the hospital without bidding for it.

Hazra, who officers said was close to the former principal, owns a medical equipment shop in Howrah, from where Ghosh allegedly made illegal purchases for RG Kar against inflated bills.

The central agency has not yet named Ghosh in the chargesheet in connection with the rape and murder.