Ex-medical college head arrested


We want justice: Junior doctors protesting to demand the resignation of a city police commissioner and condemn the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata. — AFP

The federal police said it had arrested the former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College in Kolkata for alleged graft, after an investigation in the case of the brutal rape and murder of a young female doctor on the premises.

Sandip Ghosh, who resigned as principal of the British colonial-era college days after the incident became public, was arrested on Monday on charges of financial irregularities, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said.

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