{"id":289562,"date":"2024-08-30T09:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T04:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=289562"},"modified":"2024-08-31T00:26:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:56:53","slug":"sanjay-roy-cutting-cake-next-to-ex-principal-sandip-ghosh-no-man-in-viral-photo-is-not-the-r-g-kar-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/sanjay-roy-cutting-cake-next-to-ex-principal-sandip-ghosh-no-man-in-viral-photo-is-not-the-r-g-kar-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanjay Roy cutting cake next to ex-principal Sandip Ghosh? No, man in viral photo is not the R G Kar accused"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo is viral on social media where a person is seen cutting a cake, standing next to Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. Users claim he is Sanjay Roy<\/a>, the prime accused in the August 9 rape and murder.<\/p>\n

Sandip Ghosh has been in the news since the discovery of the horrific crime at the state-run hospital in Kolkata. Serious questions have been raised about his conduct following the discovery of the postgraduate trainee’s body on August 9 — Ghosh did not even file an FIR in the matter. After he resigned on August 12, he was reinstated by the Bengal government as principal of another state-run medical college within hours. The decision was reversed following a huge backlash and only after the Calcutta high court sent him on compulsory leave. The CBI has questioned him<\/a> for over 130 hours and 13 consecutive days in the rape and murder case. The central agency has also filed an FIR against him over alleged financial irregularities at R G Kar<\/a> during his tenure. The Enforcement Directorate<\/a>, too, has launched a probe into this matter.<\/p>\n

The photo, where he is apparently seen with the prime accused, is being shared as ‘proof’ of Ghosh’s complicity in the alleged crime.<\/p>\n

X user Jitendra Prasad Singh, who shares misinformation on a regular basis<\/a>, shared the photo and claimed that it showed Roy celebrating his birthday “with RG Kar Medical College Principal Sandip Ghosh in his cabin…” (Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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The same claim was made by users like Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree<\/a>), Squint Neon (@TheSquind<\/a>), Mishraji (@R_Mishraji<\/a>), Krishnendu Mukherjee (@TheKMukherjee<\/a>), Boiled Anda (@AmitLeliSlayer<\/a>), News On Thumb (@newsonthumb<\/a>), The Thinking Hat (@ThinkinHashtag<\/a>), Satish Chandra Misra (@mishra_satish<\/a>) and several others.<\/p>\n

Republic<\/a> (Archived version<\/a>) and Times Now Bengali<\/a> (Archived version<\/a>) published reports on the viral photo identifying the man standing as Sanjay Roy. While Republic called it an ‘unconfirmed photo’ and said the man “appears to be Sanjoy Roy”, Times Now wrote in the headline (originally in Bengali), “R G Kar Incident Viral Picture: Smiling Sanjay cutting cake standing next to Sandip, huge row over viral photo.”<\/p>\n

Zee News<\/a> also telecast the image in a bulletin on the Kolkata incident and identified the man in question as accused Sanjay Roy.\u00a0A similar story was also put out by an outlet named Calcutta Television Network<\/a> (Archive<\/a>) and Odia media outlet OTV Khabar<\/a>.<\/p>\n