Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh is arrested in Odisha in connection with allegations about the hurried cremation of a junior doctor’s body in the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case. Multiple reports say Ghosh, along with two other people, is accused of acting to prevent proper evidence collection through a rushed cremation.
The arrest follows political and police scrutiny of the cremation process after the doctor’s death in August 2024. NDTV and other outlets link the development to a directive by West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who questions how and why the cremation was carried out, including claims about timing and documentation. Times of India adds that this action involves a separate case from the ongoing CBI investigation into the rape and murder itself.
Outlets describe the allegations in similar terms, but they vary in how much detail they include about specific claims, such as whether cremation procedures had approvals from the victim’s family or whether cremation-related fees were waived. Police statement(s) in the reports place the arrest within the effort to examine the cremation circumstances separately from the court-monitored CBI probe.
