Monday, June 22, 2026
ADVT 
India

Two more held in BJP leader Avijit Sarkar murder case

Darpan News Desk IANS, 16 Feb, 2022 11:56 AM
  • Two more held in BJP leader Avijit Sarkar murder case

New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said that it has arrested two absconding accused in the case of the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Avijit Sarkar who was killed in the West Bengal post poll violence.

The CBI had recently declared a cash reward of Rs 50,000 on seven accused involved in the case. It had declared rewards on Arun Dey, Sukhdeo Poddar alias Sukha, Gopal Das alias Bishal Paul, Saurav Dey alias Guddu, Rahul Dey, Biswajit Das alias Bompa, and Amit Das.

"Out of these seven Rahul Dey and Saurav Dey have been arrested by the CBI. We have chargesheeted 20 accused as of now in the case," said a senior CBI official.

The accused were produced before the Competent Court in Kolkata and remanded to two days police custody.

Avijit was allegedly murdered by the accused during the post poll violence in West Bengal but his body was not given to his family for quite a long time. Four months after his murder the family was handed over the body along with the autopsy report. A postmortem was conducted on his body two times.

Though Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had claimed that there was no incident of post poll violence in the state, a NHRC report has said that there were several cases of rape and murder after the announcement of the Assembly election results in 2021.

After investigation, a chargesheet against twenty accused was filed in the Court of ACJM, Sealdah (West Bengal) in 2021.

MORE India ARTICLES

IIT Hyderabad Student Dies After Falling From Terrace While Talking On Phone

M Anirudhya (22), a final year engineering student of IIT-Hyderabad, died instantly when he accidentally fell down from the terrace of his seven-storied hostel building.  

IIT Hyderabad Student Dies After Falling From Terrace While Talking On Phone

India To Become $ 5-Trillion Economy In Next 5 Years: Finance Minister Piyush Goyal

Stating that India is solidly back on track and marching towards growth and prosperity, he said the last five years have seen India being universally recognised as a bright spot of the global economy.

India To Become $ 5-Trillion Economy In Next 5 Years: Finance Minister Piyush Goyal

Interim Budget 'A Trailer', Says PM Modi, Toasts Middle Class

Making a big populist push in its final Budget before the General Election, the Narendra Modi government on Friday exempted people with an earning of up to Rs 5 lakh from payment of income tax

Interim Budget 'A Trailer', Says PM Modi, Toasts Middle Class

Canada Lauds Efforts Of Punjab Police In Jassi Sidhu Murder Case

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of British Columbia have presented appreciation certificate to two Punjab Police officers for their “outstanding work” in the murder case of Canadian citizen Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu alias Jassi.

Canada Lauds Efforts Of Punjab Police In Jassi Sidhu Murder Case

Haryana’s Rich Landlord Jaswinder Singh Who Smuggled Drugs To Punjab Elite Arrested

The Patiala Police have foiled a new methodology to supply opium and other drugs in Punjab, wherein the peddlers were using luxury vehicles to smuggle the contraband into Punjab.

Haryana’s Rich Landlord Jaswinder Singh Who Smuggled Drugs To Punjab Elite Arrested

Capt Approves Scheme To Provide Over 1.3 Lakh 5-Marla Plots To Rural Homeless

Capt Approves Scheme To Provide Over 1.3 Lakh 5-Marla Plots To Rural Homeless
The Punjab government on Thursday said it will provide 1.32 lakh plots of five marla each to homeless people in rural areas.

Capt Approves Scheme To Provide Over 1.3 Lakh 5-Marla Plots To Rural Homeless