The CBI had lately arrested the BJP employees, Sagar Sonkar and his brother Sahib Sonkar, working in Rath’s workplace for allegedly giving the contract for his killing to Uttar Pradesh-based shooters.
IMAGE: A view of the automobile wherein private assistant to BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari Chandranath Routh was was shot lifeless at Madhyamgram, in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, Could 6, 2026. {Photograph}: ANI Photograph
The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a cost sheet in opposition to 11 accused folks, together with two Bharatiya Janata Celebration employees, in reference to the killing of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath, officers stated Thursday.
Key Factors
- The CBI had lately arrested the BJP employees, Sagar Sonkar and his brother Sahib Sonkar, working in Rath’s workplace for allegedly giving the contract for his killing to Uttar Pradesh-based shooters.
- The position of a functionary of a rival political social gathering within the state can also be beneath the scanner.
- The CBI has additionally come to know that Sagar, until 2020, was employed with the MLA of the rival political social gathering earlier than switching sides to the BJP.
The CBI had lately arrested the BJP employees, Sagar Sonkar and his brother Sahib Sonkar, working in Rath’s workplace for allegedly giving the contract for his killing to Uttar Pradesh-based shooters.
The position of a functionary of a rival political social gathering within the state can also be beneath the scanner, they stated.
The CBI has additionally come to know that Sagar, until 2020, was employed with the MLA of the rival political social gathering earlier than switching sides to the BJP, they stated.
The company discovered that the planning to remove Rath, who was key behind Adhikari’s marketing campaign in Bhabanipur constituency, had been underway since December 2025, however the date to execute the contract stored shifting for one purpose or the opposite. It’s alleged that Sagar gave the contract and the cash to the shooter for the execution of the homicide, they stated.
Rath, the non-public assistant to Adhikari, was shot lifeless in Madhyamgram on Could 6, two days after the declaration of the fiercely contested West Bengal Meeting ballot outcomes.
The CBI has up to now arrested six shooters–Monu Singh, Raj Singh, Golu Singh, Mayank Raj Mishra, Vickey Maurya and Naveen Kumar Singh, moreover middlemen Vinay Rai, Sanjay Rai and Vikas Mishra who took the contract, they stated.
One accused stays absconding, they stated. The CBI took over the probe into Rath’s homicide from the West Bengal Police following a request from the state authorities.
