Former Panihati Municipality chairman Somnath Dey was arrested in Bengaluru on Thursday. He is accused in the hurried cremation of a rape-murder victim in 2024. Dey had been absconding since the police began their investigation into the matter. He is the third person arrested in connection with the cremation controversy. The arrest adds a new political and legal dimension to the ongoing case.

Bengal police arrested ex-Panihati chairman Somnath Dey in the probe into the alleged hasty cremation of the RG Kar rape-murder victim. | India News

Former Panihati Municipality chairman Somnath Dey was arrested in Bengaluru on Thursday. He is accused in the hurried cremation of a rape-murder victim in 2024. Dey had been…