2 more held in BJP leader’s murder case

Kolkata: Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of BJP leader Abhijit Sarkar in post-poll violence on May 2, when assembly election results were declared in Bengal.

“A total of seven out of eight people named in the FIR have now been arrested,” an officer from the detective department stated. “The two accused, identified as brothers Sanjay Dey alias Subho (26) and Avijit Dey alias Laltoo (25) who are residents of Narkeldanga, were arrested at their relative’s house in Chandannagar in Hooghly district,” said joint CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma.

The duo were produced before a lower district court on Saturday.

On July 2, the Calcutta High Court had ordered a second autopsy on Abhijit after his brother, Biswajit Sarkar, urged the court to seek a DNA test of the deceased and said his brother’s body had been damaged by maggots in the morgue.


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