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Ex-TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh arrested in Odisha over RG Kar cremation
Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested from a hotel in Balasore, Odisha, on Thursday in connection with the hurried cremation of the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder victim. West Bengal…
The Story in Brief
Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested from a hotel in Balasore, Odisha, on Thursday in connection with the hurried cremation of the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder victim. West Bengal Police traced him through mobile surveillance and took him into custody from Odishi Hotel in Simulia. Ghosh, the ex-Congress member from Panihati, is accused of destruction of evidence and criminal conspiracy. The Assam Tribune reports he had gone absconding and switched SIM cards to evade police.
The arrest follows a fresh FIR filed by the victim's father at Khardah police station, naming Ghosh, former Panihati Municipality chairman Somnath Dey, and neighbour Sanjeev Mukherjee. Police allege the three pressured the family into cremating the body on the night of August 9, 2024, breaching protocols to prevent a second autopsy. Siasat.com adds that Mukherjee was arrested later from Kolkata, while Dey remains absconding. Ghosh is expected to be produced before a Barrackpore court on Friday.
The Indian Opinion
The RG Kar case has been dragged through enough procedural theatre. Now that two of three accused in the cremation cover-up are in custody, the real test is whether the Barrackpore court grants police custody for sustained interrogation. The TMC's silence on Ghosh is louder than any denial. The question for Bengal's ruling party: will it now distance itself from a man who was its chief whip, or defend him as a loyalist framed by a political conspiracy? Let the case diary, and the call data records, speak.
Sources (4): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, timesnownews.com, assamtribune.com, siasat.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 4 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 4 sources.
