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Bengal opens a fresh probe into the RG Kar rape and murder case
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The Bengal Health Department’s separate inquiry will quickly become a political flashpoint, and the CBI handoff will keep Mamata Banerjee and the state government under renewed pressure.

This is a major accountability story because it reopens one of the state’s most sensitive criminal cases and could widen pressure on senior political figures. It also signals that the state is not treating the matter as closed, despite the passage of time.

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This is a major accountability story because it reopens one of the state’s most sensitive criminal cases and could widen pressure on senior political figures. It also signals that the state is not treating the matter as closed, despite the passage of time.

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West Bengal’s Health Department will launch a separate inquiry into the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder case two years after the crime. Health Minister Sharadwat Mukhopadhyay said the probe will examine security and administrative lapses, question people present that night and could even summon former health minister Mamata Banerjee if needed. The report will be shared with the CBI, keeping the case politically and legally alive.

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Bengal opens a fresh probe into the RG Kar rape and murder case

The Health Department says it will question people present that night and may even summon Mamata Banerjee if needed.

Indian Express·2h ago
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