A former MLA of the Trinamool Congress, Nirmal Ghosh, was arrested Thursday in Odisha in reference to the alleged hurried cremation of the junior physician who was raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital two years in the past, the police stated.
Ghosh, the previous MLA of Panihati, was arrested on expenses of destruction of proof, felony conspiracy, and forcing somebody to hold out an act towards their will, the police stated.
The arrest was made after the sufferer physician’s father filed a contemporary criticism on the Khardaha police station on Monday, alleging that Ghosh was among the many three who had pressured the “hurried cremation” of his daughter’s physique. A senior police officer of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate stated the contemporary case is separate from the CBI investigation into the rape and homicide of the physician.
“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,” information company PTI reported quoting an unnamed officer.
The arrest additionally comes days after Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, whereas attending a programme to mark the second demise anniversary of the physician, directed the police to register a separate case into the circumstances surrounding the cremation.
The Chief Minister had stated 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 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 keeping with the 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 following the switch of the probe from the Kolkata Police. One particular person was convicted within the case, and the matter is now pending within the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom.
