NEW DELHI: Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh, arrested in connection with the alleged “hurried cremation” of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, was attacked by a mob outside Khardah Police Station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Friday.Ghosh, who was arrested in Odisha a day earlier, was being escorted to a prison van to be produced before the Barrackpore sub-divisional court when the crowd broke through the security cordon and attacked him with blows and kicks. Protesters also threw footwear, eggs and muck at the former MLA.Police and RAF personnel formed a tight cordon around Ghosh and placed a helmet over his head to shield him from the assault. By the time he was taken to the court lock-up, stains of egg and muck were visible on his white kurta.The former TMC MLA also faced protests at Barrackpore court, where a group of people waiting outside shouted “chor, chor” as police rushed him inside.Another accused in the case, former Panihati municipality councillor Sanjib Mukherjee, was also confronted by protesters while being escorted to the vehicle. Mukherjee, reportedly a close aide of Ghosh, was allegedly present at the Panihati crematorium when the doctor’s body was brought there after the autopsy.
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The police have also named former Panihati municipality chairman Somnath Dey as an accused, but he remains absconding.The arrests followed a fresh complaint filed by the victim’s father on Monday, which was subsequently converted into an FIR. The complaint alleges that Ghosh, who was then the sitting MLA from Panihati, used his influence along with Mukherjee and Dey to ensure that his daughter’s body was cremated in haste against the family’s wishes.
