Kolkata: Left youth leaders hit streets again demanding justice for Anish Khan 'murder'

Led by the Left's students and youth wings, the rally was held from College Square in the College Street area to Maula Ali, demanding the arrests of the culprits.

Slogans were raised against the incumbent, the arch-rival Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its 11-year-old government while banners reading "No one killed Anish Khan!" were carried by the protesters in the rally.

Students' Federation of India (SFI) All India Joint Secretary Dipsita Dhar told India Blooms, "We are demanding a judicial inquiry from the beginning. That is not happening. 10 days have already gone by, no person involved in the whole case has been arrested.

"The government, Trinamool Congress and the police are actually trying to hide the killers of Anish Khan and till the time these people are not behind the bars, the SFI, DYFI and the larger student youth organisation in Bengal are going to be on the streets."

On Feb 18 midnight, Khan, a student of Kolkata's Aliah University who was one of the faces of anti-CAA and anti-NRC protests in the city two years ago, died after being pushed off the roof of his own house allegedly by four people who introduced themselves as policemen.

Family members of the 28-year-old student leader claimed that three of the four policemen were wearing the uniform of civic volunteers, one was wearing the state police's uniform and he was carrying a firearm like a police officer.

After the four men left the house, Khan's family members found his body lying in a pool of blood beside their house.

Anish Khan | Image Credit: Facebook

Officials at Amta PS initially had claimed that no policeman from the police station had visited the student leader's house that night in connection with any investigation.

Later, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from her office Nabanna had said two policemen were arrested as a Special Investigation Team (SIT) is probing into the case.