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The West Bengal authorities connected Friday (May 15, 2026) suspended 3 elder IPS officers—Vineet Goyal, Abhishek Gupta, and Indira Mukherjee—in transportation with the rape and execution of a doc astatine Kolkata’s R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital connected August 9, 2024.
The charges against the 3 officers are mishandling the archetypal probe and allegedly offering a bribe to the victim’s family, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said astatine a property league astatine the State Secretariat.
“The incidental involving Abhaya ( R. G. Kar victim) has shaken america to the halfway and brought disrepute to West Bengal. We person recovered that determination was mishandling of the probe astatine the archetypal stage. There were besides allegations of offering wealth to the household of the victim,” the Chief Minister said.
Mr. Adhikari said that the enactment followed a fact-finding enquiry conducted by the State’s Chief Secretary and Home Secretary. He added that each 3 officers would look departmental proceedings and that the mentation of the household members of the unfortunate would besides beryllium considered.
Vineet Goyal, who was Kolkata Police Commissioner astatine the clip of the incident, is astatine contiguous posted arsenic Director General & Inspector General of Police, Intelligence Branch. The erstwhile Trinamool Congress authorities had to region him from the commissioner’s station owed to mounting protests implicit the case. Abhishek Gupta, past Deputy Commissioner of Kolkata Police ( North), is present serving arsenic Commanding Officer of the Eastern Frontier Rifles, 2nd Battalion, successful the fertile of DIG.
Indira Mukherjee, past Deputy Commissioner of Kolkata Police (Central Division), had addressed a arguable property league astatine the tallness of the agitation, wherever she tried to support the police’s role. The Chief Minister said she was not the authoritative spokesperson of the Kolkata Police, and her remarks astatine the media enactment were not well-received by the people. Ms. Mukherjee is presently posted arsenic Special Superintendent, CID, West Bengal.
Mr. Adhikari said the West Bengal authorities has not looked into the facet of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) probe into the case. The CBI had named erstwhile Kolkata Police civic unpaid Sanjay Roy arsenic the accused. In January 2025, a tribunal convicted Roy and awarded him beingness imprisonment.
Delivering justness to the unfortunate was 1 of the promises of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls. The BJP had fielded Ratna Debnath, who won from the Panihati Assembly seat.
In different development, 23 mobile phones were seized during a astonishment raid astatine Presidency Central Correctional Home. The State authorities aboriginal suspended Superintendent of the correctional location N. Kujur, and Chief Controller of the installation Dipto Gorai.
Mr. Adhikari said the CID would look into the lawsuit and warned officials of correctional homes crossed the State to extremity immoderate existing nexus with inmates oregon look action.
