Calcutta High Court on Friday asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to hand over documents relating to its inquiry against RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's former principal Sandip Ghosh to the CBI by 10.30am on Saturday.

The SIT, constituted by the Bengal government, had started the probe against Ghosh based on a complaint by Akhtar Ali, the former deputy superintendent of the government-run medical facility.

Ali moved the court with a plea that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe various charges of financial corruption against Ghosh. He levelled several charges against Ghosh in his petition, including smuggling hospital waste and medicines and collecting money from trainee doctors.

After the rape and murder of the junior doctor of RG Kar Medical College of Hospital on August 9, Ghosh was removed from his post. The CBI had been ordered by the high court to probe the murder.

While delivering his order on Ali's plea, Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj held that since the CBI had been probing the junior doctor's death, it would be wise to hand over the investigation into the alleged financial impropriety to the same central agency.

"If the investigating agency feels it necessary to involve the ED, it would be done accordingly," the judge remarked.

Later in the afternoon, an appeal on behalf of Ghosh was moved against Justice Bhardwaj's order before the division bench headed by Justice Harish Tandon. But the division bench declined to accept the case at the moment.