The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has initiated a probe to find out whether the four-storeyed house of Sandip Ghosh, arrested former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Beleghata, was built according to a sanctioned plan or if there were any structural deviations.
The move follows a complaint by a structural engineer to the KMC alleging that Ghosh’s house on Badan Ray Lane, off CIT Road, has an illegal construction on the terrace and the house’s boundary wall has allegedly been extended to cover a civic manhole.
“A notice has been slapped on the house asking its owner or a representative to appear before the buildings department on September 30 and clarify the allegations levelled,” said a senior official of the KMC’s buildings department.
KMC sources said a probe was initiated to check the details of the sanctioned plan for the house, whose owner is Ghosh. He is now in judicial custody following his arrest by the CBI.
A section of residents of Badan Ray Lane had earlier protested alleged illegal constructions in the house, tucked between two multi-storeyed buildings.
“As a part of the investigation, a team from KMC’s Borough III was sent to check, and primarily it appears that there may have been certain deviations from the original plan,” the official said.
“We would like to know from the family’s representative whether necessary permissions were taken to make alterations and additions.”
The CBI arrested Ghosh first for his alleged involvement in financial irregularities at RG Kar as its former principal. The central agency subsequently arrested him in the case of rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor of the hospital.
During the probe into Ghosh’s alleged involvement in financial irregularities,
the CBI found that he owns two other apartments in Beleghata apart from the four-storeyed house on Badan Ray Lane.
A ground-floor apartment in a building on CIT Road in Beleghata measures around 1200sqft and one on the second floor is spread over 1400sqft, CBI sources said. An SUV, bought in June 2022, continues to remain parked in the garage.
The apartments on CIT Road don’t bear his name, CBI sources said.
