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Kolkata rape case: Ex-head of India college held over ‘evidence tampering’

Junior doctors in Kolkata have pledged to continue their protests until justice for the slain 31-year-old trainee doctor is meted out [File: Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters]

India’s federal investigating agency has arrested the former principal of a medical college in the eastern city of Kolkata on charges of tampering with evidence linked to the rape and murder of a junior female doctor, a case that triggered weeks of nationwide protests.

Dr Sandip Ghosh, former principal of the RG Kar Medical College, was arrested along with police officer Abhijit Mondal by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) late on Saturday.

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