CCTV Yields Vital Clues To Bengal Trinamool Leader’s Murder, Say Police

Kolkata:

A footage from a closed-circuit tv has offered very important clues on the homicide of a Trinamool Congress chief in Bengal’s Joynagar. The footage caught the moments earlier than the homicide and exhibits the suspects passing the sufferer, Saifuddin Laskar, who was shot lifeless on Monday.

The footage exhibits the Trinamool chief strolling on the road as bike-borne males, suspected to be the murderers, go by him.  

The police say they’ve arrested the person who shot the Saifuddin Lashkar and declare he has confessed to the crime. The police say the CCTV footage has given them clues in regards to the variety of attackers concerned. Sources say investigations have additionally revealed that it was a case contract killing however the police are but to verify the motive behind the homicide.

Laskar headed the Trinamool unit in Joynagar’s Bamungachi space and his spouse is a panchayat pradhan.

After his homicide, a mob of supporters torched round 20 houses in retaliation.  A suspect was additionally overwhelmed to loss of life. His spouse, nonetheless, stated the person was additionally a Trinamool Congress supporter.  

“My husband didn’t work for any social gathering. He used to vote and are available again. He was not involved in working for any social gathering,” stated Zarina Laskar, widow of Shahabuddin Laskar.

Requested if the household was linked to the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress, she answered within the affirmative.

Three instances have been registered following the homicide. Apart from the homicide case, two instances have been filed over the killing of lynching of Shahabuddin Laskar and the arson that adopted the homicide of the Trinamool chief.

Native Trinamool leaders have alleged the involvement of CPM supporters within the homicide. Senior CPM chief Sujan Chakraborty has trashed the allegations.

The homicide, he stated, is a “results of inner strife throughout the Trinamool” and “It’s no use blaming the CPM”.  

This afternoon Sujan Chakraborty and different Left leaders have been stopped by the police from visiting the village the place houses of CPM supporters have been set on hearth. Different Opposition leaders have been additionally stopped the police.