Kolkata: Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh was arrested from Baleshwar in Odisha Thursday over his alleged involvement in the “hurried cremation” of the doctor, who was raped and murdered at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata in 2024, police said.
Ghosh, the former MLA of Panihati, was arrested on charges of destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy, and forcing someone to carry out an act against their will, they said. The arrest was made af ter the victim doctor’s father lodged a fresh complaint at the Khardaha police station on Monday, alleging that Ghosh was among the three who had forced the “hurried cremation” of his daughter’s body.
The other two persons named in the complaint were TMC’s former Panihati Municipality chairman, Somnath Dey, and the family’s neighbour, Sanjib Mukherjee. Police said that Ghosh was being brought back to West Bengal by road and is likely to be produced before the Barrackpore court in North 24 Parganas district Friday.
