ITI student lynched in WB: Accused TMC leader booked
Acting on a tip off, police nabbed TMC leader Tapas Mullick, who was absconding after the incident, and his close aid Billu Ghorui from Bamangachi area under Duttapukur Police Station limits in North 24 Parganas district, a senior police official told IBNS.
Mullick and Billu Ghorui were produced in a local court in Diamond Harbour on Friday and sent to police custody for 13 days.
Earlier on Monday night, ITI student Kaushik Purkait was badly beaten up by angry villagers at Bahadurpur village in Diamond Harbour, over a false allegation of buffalo-stealing. Local TMC leader Tapas Mullick allegedly led the lynching and prevented his family members from taking seriously injured Kaushik to hospital until they promised to pay a large amount of rupees as compensation.
Kaushik, however, died later in Kolkata's SSKM Hospital.
Police earlier arrested four persons, including a woman, on Tuesday in connection with the case and they are in police custody.
When Kaushik's body was taken to his village on Wednesday, angry villagers went on a rampage. They ransacked the houses of few of the accused and set few motorcycles and cycle-vans on fire. Police arrested two men in connection with this rampage and they are also in police custody.
Kaushik Purakait's family members are demanding CBI probe into the matter.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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