Bhubaneswar: Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested from Odisha on Thursday in connection with the RG Kar rape and murder case. Police picked him up from a hotel located beside NH-16 in Simulia area of Balasore district.
Ghosh, the former MLA of Panihati, has been accused of involvement in the “hurried cremation” of the trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in 2024. He has been arrested on charges of destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy, and forcing someone to carry out an act against their will.
The arrest followed a fresh complaint lodged by the victim doctor’s father at Khardaha police station on Monday. In the complaint, he alleged that Ghosh was among the three people who had forced the hurried cremation of his daughter’s body.
The other two named in the complaint are former Panihati Municipality chairman Somnath Dey and the family’s neighbour Sanjib Mukherjee.Police said Ghosh is being brought back to West Bengal by road and is likely to be produced before the Barrackpore court in North 24 Parganas district on Friday.
The development comes days after Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, while attending a memorial programme for the victim doctor in Panihati on Sunday, directed the Barrackpore Police Commissioner to launch a fresh probe into the alleged hasty cremation.
