Suvendu Orders Fresh Probe Into Hasty Cremation of Slain RG Kar Doctor’s Body
CM names three TMC leaders and asks Barrackpore Police to take appropriate action
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari ordered the Barrackpore City Police on Sunday to register a fresh case against three Trinamul Congress leaders, including a former MLA, behind the hurried cremation of the body of an on-duty doctor, who was raped and murdered at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital two years ago, soon after the post-mortem.
The CM said at an event in Panihati of North 24 Parganas to pay tribute to the victim, “Three people– Nirmal Ghosh, Somnath De and Sanjib Mukherjee– carried out the dangerous incident. Barrackpore police commissioner is present here. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is not into it. Please start a new case and take appropriate action.”
While Mr Ghosh is a former TMC MLA of Panihati, two others are his aides. The trio earlier came under scanner for their all out efforts in ensuring a quick cremation of the victim's body at Panihati immediately after the post-mortem. Mr Ghosh was questioned by the CBI in June this year for his role in the case during its fresh probe into the circumstances of the crime.
Mr Adhikari added, “I will do whatever is possible for me in this case. I have not forgotten her. People have elected us to deliver justice. I'm committed to it within my limitations.” In the morning, the medical fraternity, from doctors to nurses, paid tribute to the victim by observing a two-minute silence at a ceremony, mandated by the state government for the first time in her memory at all the state-run hospitals.
