Kolkata, Feb. 10 -- Akhtar Ali, the former administrative staff of Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital who leaked evidence of financial corruption against the institution's former principal, Dr Sandip Ghosh, after the August 2024 rape and murder of a trainee doctor, was remanded in judicial custody on Tuesday after he surrendered before a designated Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court, lawyers said.

"On February 6, the CBI court in Kolkata issued an arrest warrant against Ali, a former non-medical deputy superintendent of the hospital, for failing to appear despite receiving five summon notices. He surrendered on Tuesday and was remanded in judicial custody till February 17," a lawyer representing CBI said, requesting anonymity.

Ali's cou...