{"id":476,"date":"2026-08-11T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=476"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:47:53","slug":"rg-kar-case-fir-against-ex-tmc-mla-over-hurried-cremation-of-rape-victim-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"RG Kar case: FIR against ex-TMC MLA over &#8216;hurried&#8217; cremation of rape victim | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133161401,imgsize-87572,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/representative-image.jpg\" alt=\"RG Kar case: FIR against ex-TMC MLA over 'hurried' cremation of rape victim\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: West Bengal officials on Tuesday registered an FIR against former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh in connection with the alleged hurried cremation of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rg-kar-medical-college\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RG Kar Medical College<\/a> and Hospital last year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Additionally, Panihati Municipality councillor Somnath Dey and Sanjeev Mukherjee, a neighbour of the victim&#8217;s family, were also named in the FIR.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The case was registered on the basis of a complaint by the deceased doctor&#8217;s father, who alleged that the cremation was carried out in undue haste under the supervision of the three accused.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The FIR was registered at Khardah police station and alleged that the victim&#8217;s cremation was carried out in haste to prevent the possibility of an autopsy and thus conceal evidence.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>&#8220;The CBI is probing the rape and murder case at RG Kar hospital, which falls under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Police. The new FIR lodged at Khardah police station is based on a complaint by the family of the deceased that the body was cremated in a hurry without the consent of the family members to hush up evidence,&#8221; the officer told news agency PTI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>This comes days after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari directed the police to register a separate case into the circumstances surrounding the cremation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>&#8220;The role of Ghosh, Dey and Mukherjee in the cremation needs to be investigated. I have ordered the registration of a new case separately, apart from the court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). I have asked the Barrackpore Police Commissioner to take necessary steps in this regard,&#8221; he had said on August 8.<\/p>\n<div class=\"LEzX4\">\n<div class=\"PmOGb\">\n<p class=\"PSf84\">Share your thoughts in the comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Insightful<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Agree<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Disagree<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Skeptical<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Concerning<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Promising<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Worth Reading<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Big Development<\/button><\/p>\n<p><textarea class=\"T9MbS\" rows=\"1\" placeholder=\"Add your Thoughts...\"\/><button type=\"button\" class=\"ZW6JD \" disabled=\"\">Post Comment<\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"swnca\">Be respectful \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/termsandcondition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"gkv0P\">TOI community guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>The 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor was found dead in a seminar room of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Investigators subsequently established that she had been raped and murdered the previous night.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>According to the police, the body was taken to a crematorium in Panihati and cremated in haste, allegedly overtaking two other bodies waiting in the queue.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>Police have also raised questions over the signatures on the cremation consent documents, saying they were allegedly those of neighbours and not the victim&#8217;s parents or other family members.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>The CBI is separately investigating the rape and murder case following the transfer of the probe from the Kolkata Police. One person was convicted in the case, and the matter is now pending in the Calcutta High Court.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/rg-kar-case-fir-against-ex-tmc-mla-over-hurried-cremation-of-rape-victim\/articleshow\/133161241.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: West Bengal officials on Tuesday registered an FIR against former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh in connection with the alleged hurried cremation of the junior doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata&rsquo;s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last year.Additionally, Panihati Municipality councillor Somnath Dey and Sanjeev Mukherjee, a neighbour of the victim&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}