A footage from a closed-circuit tv has supplied important clues on the homicide of a Trinamool Congress chief in Bengal’s Joynagar. The footage caught the moments earlier than the homicide and reveals the suspects passing the sufferer, Saifuddin Laskar, who was shot useless on Monday.
The footage reveals the Trinamool chief strolling on the road as bike-borne males, suspected to be the murderers, move 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 crushed to dying. His spouse, nonetheless, mentioned the person was additionally a Trinamool Congress supporter.
”My husband didn’t work for any celebration. He used to vote and are available again. He was not concerned with working for any celebration,” mentioned 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 circumstances have been registered following the homicide. Moreover the homicide case, two circumstances 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 mentioned, is a ”results of inside strife inside the Trinamool” and ”It’s no use blaming the CPM”.
This afternoon Sujan Chakraborty and different Left leaders had been stopped by the police from visiting the village the place houses of CPM supporters had been set on hearth. Different Opposition leaders had been additionally stopped the police.