{"id":10850,"date":"2020-07-31T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10850"},"modified":"2020-07-31T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T08:33:13","slug":"bengal-another-bjp-worker-found-hanging-from-tree-family-names-tmc-leaders-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10850","title":{"rendered":"Bengal: Another BJP worker found hanging from tree, family names TMC leaders for \u2018murder\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After the body of a 52-year-old BJP<\/a> worker was found hanging from a tree in Ghoramara area of South 24 Parganas district on Thursday, his family alleged that he was killed by local Trinamool Congress leaders. Police, on the other hand, said that they have found a handwritten \u201csuicide note\u201d from Goutam Patra\u2019s body and claimed that the local BJP worker was subjected to public ridicule over allegations of doing \u201cunnatural activities\u201d with a cow recently.<\/p>\n

Patra\u2019s family in a complaint lodged at Sagar Police Station has named 11 local Trinamool leaders and 10 others for the \u201cmurder\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father was very vocal against Trinamool leaders indulging in corruption in cyclone Amphan<\/a> relief distribution. He had organised agitations here. Since then, TMC leaders were trying to kill my father,\u201d Patra\u2019s son Soumitra said.<\/p>\n

According to him, Patra was summoned by local TMC leader Amalendu Guria to his house on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had also called another local BJP leader Lalmohan Halder to Guria\u2019s house. After 10 pm, they kicked out Halder from the house. After that, we did not get any news of father. Today morning his body was found hanging from a tree just 500 metres from our house. We are sure that my father was killed and then hanged,\u201d said Soumitra.<\/p>\n

Superintendent of Police (Sundarban) Baibhav Tiwary, in a statement said, that they have registered a case of unnatural death. \u201cWe have received information that the said deceased\u00a0person has been accused of doing unnatural physical activities with a cow in the village last week over which he was being subjected to public ridicule. Yesterday (Wednesday), there was a Salishi Sabha (kangaroo court) in the village and the matter was discussed. No final decision was taken. Today morning, his body was recovered in a hanging position from his house. A handwritten note has been received from his pocket where it is written that he accepts his sins and no one is responsible for his death,\u201d the SP said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe body has been sent for a post-mortem. We are investigating the matter, including the handwritten note,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

This is the third such incident in the state in the last fortnight. On Wednesday, the body of a BJP worker, Purnachandra Das, was found hanging in Ramnagar area of East Midnapore district. Before that, Hemtabad MLA Debendra Nath Roy, who had joined BJP last year, was found dead. His body was also found hanging in front of a tea shop.<\/p>\n

The BJP accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of \u201cpolitical killings\u201d and demanded immediate arrest of the accused. \u201cOnce again, Trinamool Congress has killed a BJP worker. The Trinamool Congress is repeatedly killing BJP workers and trying to stage it as a suicide. We strongly condemn this and demand strict punishment for the culprits,\u201d BJP national secretary Rahul Sinha said.<\/p>\n

Sinha also asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee<\/a> to \u201censure the arrest of the murderers\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ruling Trinamool Congress, however, has denied all the charges levelled by the BJP, calling it \u201ccompletely baseless and politically motivated\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoutam Patra may have committed suicide due to family problems. We should wait for the police investigation, which shall bring out the truth,\u201d a local Trinamool Congress leader said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, BJP alleged that TMC workers beat up their party cadres in Khejuri area of East Midnapore and Arambagh in Hooghly district. \u201cTMC goons attacked our leaders and workers in Khejuri, leaving six BJP workers injured. In Arambagh, one BJP worker was injured after he was attacked by TMC cadres,\u201d BJP leader Rahul Sinha said.<\/p>\n

The TMC denied the allegation that their party workers were involved in the incident, and blamed it on the \u201cinfighting\u201d in the local BJP units.<\/p>\n

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Written by Atri Mitra | Kolkata | Published: July 31, 2020 10:45:14 am Patra\u2019s family in a complaint lodged at Sagar Police Station has named 11 local Trinamool leaders and 10 others for the \u201cmurder\u201d. (Representational) After the body of a 52-year-old BJP worker was found hanging from a tree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dead-4.jpgw759.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}