India, Aug. 14 -- Another person has been arrested in connection with the alleged conspiracy over the "hurried cremation" of the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder victim, police said on Friday.

The accused, identified as the victim's neighbour Sanjeev Mukherjee, was arrested from a house in Chinar Park area of Kolkata late on Thursday, a police officer said, adding he was at large.

His arrest came hours after former Trinamool Congress MLA Nirmal Ghosh was apprehended in Odisha on Thursday afternoon.

Mukherjee is expected to be produced before the Barrackpore court in North 24 Parganas district later in the day.

Another accused, Somnath Dey, a Trinamool Congress councillor of Panihati Municipality, remains untraced, the officer said.

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