Health department okayed demolition: Sandip Ghosh

Former R G Kar principal Sandip Ghosh , during interrogation, claimed that he secured approval of senior officials of health department before issuing the order on Aug 10 to demolish rooms near seminar hall where the PGT doctor's body was found on Aug 9.

Ghosh told investigators that he had received a 10-point charter of demands from resident doctors on Aug 10 and that the order was to meet the demand for a duty room with proper toilet for departmental doctors.

Ghosh told investigators that he had agreed to the demands and decided to go for the work. He has also claimed that he had to rush through the work as demands were urgent and the situation inside the hospital was sensitive.

He said that he had also agreed to the demand of cop picketing on hospital premises, increasing number of CCTVs at the hospital and 24x7 monitoring through these CCTV cameras.