NEW DELHI: Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh, arrested in reference to the alleged “hurried cremation” of the RG Kar rape-murder sufferer, was attacked by a mob exterior Khardah Police Station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Friday.Ghosh, who was arrested in Odisha a day earlier, was being escorted to a jail van to be produced earlier than the Barrackpore sub-divisional court docket when the gang broke by way of the safety cordon and attacked him with blows and kicks. Protesters additionally threw footwear, eggs and muck on the former MLA.Police and RAF personnel shaped a decent cordon round Ghosh and positioned a helmet over his head to protect him from the assault. By the point he was taken to the court docket lock-up, stains of egg and muck had been seen on his white kurta.The previous TMC MLA additionally confronted protests at Barrackpore court docket, the place a gaggle of individuals ready exterior shouted “chor, chor” as police rushed him inside.One other accused within the case, former Panihati municipality councillor Sanjib Mukherjee, was additionally confronted by protesters whereas being escorted to the automobile. Mukherjee, reportedly a detailed aide of Ghosh, was allegedly current on the Panihati crematorium when the physician’s physique was introduced there after the post-mortem.
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The police have additionally named former Panihati municipality chairman Somnath Dey as an accused, however he stays absconding.The arrests adopted a recent grievance filed by the sufferer’s father on Monday, which was subsequently transformed into an FIR. The grievance alleges that Ghosh, who was then the sitting MLA from Panihati, used his affect together with Mukherjee and Dey to make sure that his daughter’s physique was cremated in haste towards the household’s needs.
