Ex RG Kar Principal Sandip Ghosh To Face Lie Detector Test, Court Grants Permission To CBI

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday has moved to court seeking permission to conduct a polygraph test on former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Principal Sandip Ghosh. Previously the prayer was to conduct the polygraph test on the arrested accused Sanjoy Rai, but CBI, later, has moved a petition before the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate to include Ghosh and four other friends of the deceased doctor who had spotted her last for the lie detector test. The court has granted the permission.

Polygraph test or commonly known as lie detector test, essentially gauges physiological responses and truthfulness of the responses through heart rate, breathing patterns, sweating, and blood pressure. Ghosh was brought to the court on Thursday afternoon for his statement recording under section 180 of BNSS (previously 164 Crpc), before the magistrate. He has been examined by the agency for 5 consecutive days.

The former principal is accused of attempting to hush up the rape and murder and pass it on as suicide. He, however, has dismissed the allegations. In the eye of protest from doctors who complained of apathy on the part of the RG Kar MCH, Ghosh had tendered his resignation but he was rather transferred to another premium government medical college in Kolkata by the state health department, stoking apprehensions of political patronage he enjoyed from the ruling Trinamool Congress. The state health department had later revoked the transfer order and after the High Court’s intervention, Ghosh had been placed on leave.

Meanwhile, the state government of Mamata Banerjee had constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the alleged graft charges against the RG Kar MCH when Ghosh was at the helm of affairs. A FIR too has been registered by Kolkata Police naming Ghosh on the basis of a complaint forwarded by the state health department.

CBI on Thursday had filed a status report to the Supreme Court bench of CJI DY Chandrachud in a sealed envelope, apprising about the progress in the investigation. The matter was handed over to the CBI by the Calcutta High Court on August 13, it has been over a week since then but there hasn’t been any fresh arrest in the case.​​