The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continued its searches in Kolkata for the second day today in connection with the investigation into the alleged financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The central probe agency is also interrogating the former principal of the college Sandip Ghosh, demonstrator at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at the college, Dr Debashish Som, and others in the case.

Yesterday, the CBI carried out searches at 15 locations in connection with the probe.

Meanwhile, healthcare services at state-run hospitals in West Bengal remained crippled as junior doctors continued their strike over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College.

The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front are demanding proper investigation and exemplary punishment to the culprits in the case.