RG Kar Case: Three Senior IPS Officers Removed By West Bengal Government

Adhikari Cites Probe Mishandling Allegations

Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari made this announcement from the state secretariat and stated that, on the grounds of a departmental inquiry instituted against them, former Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal and former deputy commissioners Indira Mukherjee and Abhishek Gupta had been dismissed.

He asserted that the three officers were responsible for the 'mishandling' of the RG Kar case, which included allegations of bribery to the parents as a bribe and an 'unauthorized press conference' with reference to the August 2024 incident. 

"The Bengal government suspended three police officers for ‘lapses’ in the investigation of the RG Kar rape-murder case. The government will start a departmental probe against ex-Kolkata CP Vineet Goyal, two other officers", said Adhikari.

Inquiry Ordered Under Home Secretary

Adhikari clarified that the government was not interfering with the actual criminal investigation and that it was under judicial investigation and the purview of the Central Bureau of Investigation. The Chief Minister asserted that disciplinary procedures would be held by the state's home secretary under the supervision of the chief secretary. 

Victim’s Mother Seeks Arrest of Three Accused

The Sealdah court received on Wednesday, on a petition filed by her, from the mother of the victim of the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder (who is now an MLA), assisted by her husband for the arrest of former Panihati MLA Nirmal Ghosh, Somnath Das and Trinamool Congress activist Sanjib Mukhopadhyay, alleging that the three were the perpetrators of evidence destruction in the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee doctor and that it was essential for the investigation that they be arrested. 

RG Kar Doctor Found Murdered in Hospital

The postgraduate student at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was raped and murdered at her workplace on August 9, 2024. On Friday morning (August 9), her body was discovered inside a seminar room of the state-run hospital's chest department, bearing extensive injury marks and the preliminary report of autopsy confirming violent sexual assault.

The Sealdah court at Kolkata had convicted former civic volunteer Sanjay Roy of rape and murder in RG Kar case, but he still claimed that he was being framed.