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TMC leader’s murder: Khairasole OC removed

The motive behind the murder is not clear, but police have started investigations and all angles will be probed, police superintendent Kunal Agarwal said.

TMC leader’s murder: Khairasole OC removed

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Sub-inspector Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, officer-in-charge of Khoirasole police station in Birbhum, has been removed by the district police superintendent following the murder of Trinamul block president Dipak Ghosh.

Khoirasole police have detained seven persons till this evening for interrogation in connection with the murder case. The Birbhum-Jharkhand border has been sealed and police have started frisking every vehicle entering and leaving the state.

But forty-eight hours later, police are still groping in the darkness. District TMC president Anubrata Mondal has justified the removal of the officer-in-charge of Khoirasole police station, stating that the officer has failed to maintain law and order situation in his area.

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The motive behind the murder is not clear, but police have started investigations and all angles will be probed, police superintendent Kunal Agarwal said.

Birbhum police suspect that contract killers from Jharkhand were carried out the murder.

Country-made firearms have been used for the murder, sources said.

Mr Ramkrishna Roy, district president of BJP in Birbhum, pointed out that Dipak Ghosh’s elder brother, Ashok Ghosh, had also been murdered in a similar fashion and a year later, his political rival, Ashoke Mukherjee, faced the same fate.

“Our party was not involved in any of these murders. It is a fact that the factional feud within the ruling party in Khoirasole block is the most intense in the state.

“Both the factions want to control the lucrative illegal sand mining, coal mining, stone mining businesses in the area, resulting in repeated cases of bloodshed. We also want a high-level probe,” he added.

Mr Bikash Roy Choudhury, the zilla parishad sabhadipati of Birbhum, accompanied the dead body from the private super speciality hospital in Durgapur to Birbhum.

He said that in this hour of crisis, the party and administration stand behind the family members of the deceased leader.

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