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Ex-TMC MLA arrested over RG Kar cremation
Times of India··14 Aug
Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested on August 13 from Odisha in a fresh case over the hurried cremation of the RG Kar junior doctor. Police booked him for destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy and forcing a person to act against their will. He was to be brought to Barrackpore for court production.
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What It Means For You
- If you have followed the RG Kar case, this arrest is on a new FIR about the cremation, not a substitute for the CBI rape and murder probe.
- The victim's family can see the father's Khardah complaint is now an arrest in Odisha, with Barrackpore production listed after transit.
- Panihati residents can note a former municipal chairman is named in the same FIR as the former MLA.
What's Happening
- Ghosh, former Panihati MLA, was arrested in Odisha on August 13 after the August 10 Khardah complaint.
- Police said he would be brought by road to West Bengal and produced before a Barrackpore court.
- The FIR is separate from the CBI case in which one person has already been convicted, with the appeal pending in the Calcutta High Court.
Why a New FIR Was Opened Two Years Later
- The 31-year-old postgraduate trainee was found dead in an RG Kar seminar room on August 9, 2024; investigators later established rape and murder the previous night.
- Ghosh was seen at the hospital that evening and later with the hearse; the family said pressure began at the house before the crematorium.
- Adhikari, attending a second-anniversary programme, told the Barrackpore Police Commissioner to register a case on the cremation documents and fee waiver.
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