KOLKATA: Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested on Thursday in reference to the alleged hurried cremation of the physique of a health care provider who was raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital in August 2024.Ghosh and two others have been named in an FIR registered at Khardah police station following a criticism by the deceased physician’s father.Attending a memorial programme for the sufferer physician in Panihati on Sunday, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari had directed the Barrackpore Police Commissioner to launch a recent probe into the alleged hasty cremation.The allegationsFather of the sufferer alleged that the cremation was carried out in undue haste underneath the supervision of the three accused, allegedly to forestall the potential for a second post-mortem and conceal proof.A senior police officer of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate mentioned the brand new case was separate from the CBI investigation into the rape and homicide.“The CBI is probing the rape and homicide case at RG Kar hospital, which falls underneath the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police. The brand new FIRs lodged at Khardah police station are primarily based on complaints by the household of the deceased that the physique was cremated in a rush with out the consent of the members of the family to hush up proof,” the officer informed PTI.‘I’ve ordered the registration of a brand new case individually’Adhikari had mentioned there have been questions over the cremation, together with the alleged waiver of the cremation charge and the absence of signatures of the sufferer’s members of the family on the related paperwork.“The position of Ghosh, Dey and Mukherjee within the cremation must be investigated. I’ve ordered the registration of a brand new case individually, aside from the court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). I’ve requested the Barrackpore Police Commissioner to take obligatory steps on this regard,” he had mentioned on August 8.The 31-year-old postgraduate trainee physician was discovered useless in a seminar room of RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital on August 9, 2024.Investigators subsequently established that she had been raped and murdered the earlier night time.In line with police, the physique was taken to a crematorium in Panihati and cremated in haste, allegedly overtaking two different our bodies ready within the queue.Police have additionally raised questions over the signatures on the cremation consent paperwork, saying they have been allegedly these of neighbours and never the sufferer’s mother and father or different members of the family.The CBI is individually investigating the rape and homicide case after the probe was transferred from Kolkata Police.One particular person was convicted within the case and the matter is now pending within the Calcutta excessive courtroom.(With inputs from PTI)
