Kolkata: Former chairman of Panihati Municipality Somnath Dey was arrested in Bengaluru on Thursday in connection with the alleged hurried cremation of the body of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder victim in 2024, police said.
Dey, a TMC leader who had been absconding since the police began probing the circumstances surrounding the cremation, was arrested from the southern metropolis early in the day, a senior officer of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate said.