The West Bengal Medical Council on Thursday removed the name of Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College arrested in connection with the rape and murder at the hospital, from its registers.
Ghosh, who had done his MS in orthopaedic surgery from the PGMIER, Chandigarh, will no longer be able to practise as a surgeon, or a doctor.
The Central Bureao if Investigation had on September 14 arrested the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in connection with the rape and murder of the 31-year-old postgraduate trainee. The CBI had earlier arrested him in a corruption case.
The West Bengal Medical Council had served Ghosh a show-cause notice on September 6.
“In view of the non-receipt of any explanation what-so-ever even after the lapse of 13 days,” the West Bengal Medical Council notice said, Ghosh’s name “is removed from the register of Registered Medical Practitioner being maintained by this council” under section 25 (a) (II) of the Bengal Medical Act, 1914 and section 37 (III) of the code of Medical Ethics of the West Bengal Medical Council.
The said section of the Bengal Medical Act empowers the West Bengal Medical Council to remove the name of any doctor from the register, “whom the Council, after due inquiry in the same manner as provided in Clause b of section 17 have found guilty by a majority of two-third of the members, present and voting at the meeting of infamous conduct in professional respect.”
The rape and murder of the young doctor happened while Ghosh was in charge. The FIR was reportedly lodged 14 hours late. Ghosh is also accused of running a “syndicate” in the hospital that controlled everything from medical supplies to the fate of students in exams.
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s government had transferred Ghosh to Calcutta National Medical College hours after he had resigned from RG Kar in face of outrage over the rape and murder.
He was sent on leave following an order from the Calcutta high court, till the CBI arrested him in connection with the corruption case. He was later “shown” arrested in connection with the rape and murder case.
