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RG Kar case reopens as Adhikari orders fresh probe and cremation inquiry
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The RG Kar probes will keep widening unless investigators quickly separate the original crime from the cremation controversy.

The case remains politically explosive and emotionally raw, and the new probes could reopen questions about accountability, procedure and institutional handling. It also keeps pressure on the state government and the ruling party.

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The case remains politically explosive and emotionally raw, and the new probes could reopen questions about accountability, procedure and institutional handling. It also keeps pressure on the state government and the ruling party.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari ordered a fresh investigation into the 2024 rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata after a request from the victim’s mother, Ratna Debnath, now a BJP MLA. He also ordered a separate inquiry into alleged cremation irregularities and later named three TMC leaders in a related cremation probe. Government hospitals across the state marked the case’s second anniversary with a two-minute silence.

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RG Kar case reopens as Adhikari orders fresh probe and cremation inquiry

West Bengal’s opposition leader has ordered a new investigation into the doctor’s 2024 rape-murder and a separate probe into cremation irregularities.

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