Mob Attacks Ex-TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh Outside Police Station

Former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was mobbed and assaulted by a crowd outside a police station in West Bengal on Friday, August 14, 2026, as he was being escorted by police to a court hearing. The attack occurred just one day after his arrest in the neighboring state of Odisha for his alleged involvement in the hurried cremation of a doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in 2024.

Ghosh, a former MLA from Panihati, was being taken from the Khardah Police Station to the Barrackpore Court in North 24 Parganas district when a mob surrounded him. Despite police efforts to shield him with a helmet, he was subjected to physical attacks, including kicks, slaps, and being pelted with eggs, muck, sticks, and bricks. Protesters also carried garlands made of shoes and shouted slogans like "chor, chor" (thief, thief). A similar reception awaited another accused, Sanjib Mukherjee, a former Trinamool councillor and neighbor of the victim's family, who was arrested on Thursday, August 13. Both men were later produced in court, where Ghosh was sent to eight days of police custody.

The arrests stem from a fresh complaint lodged by the victim's father on...