Kolkata: Journalists were on Saturday lathicharged at the SSKM hospital in Kolkata to prevent them from taking pictures of suspended Trinamool parliamentarian Kunal Ghosh who allegedly tried to commit suicide on Friday. Ghosh, an accused in the Saradha chit-fund scam, had taken dozens of sleeping pills.
On Saturday morning, when Ghosh was being taken from the critical care unit to another building in the hospital complex for an Electroencephalography (EEG) test, he told reporters that the real culprits of the Saradha scam must be arrested.
While he was being brought back to the Critical Care Unit, journalists were waiting to take fresh pictures of Ghosh and talk to him if possible. However, when the police escorting Mr Ghosh saw the media, they refused to bring him out of the ambulance.Â
A police force armed with lathis was called in and then charged the waiting media persons, during which several journalists sustained injuries.Â
The police took Ghosh inside the hospital building during the melee.Â
Arrested last November, Ghosh reportedly told jail officials that he had taken 58 sleeping pills. To doctors, he reportedly told it was closer to 30 to 40 pills.
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The jail superintendent, doctor and guards have been suspended. How Ghosh accessed so many of the pills he had reportedly been prescribed for insomnia is being investigated.Â
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