This story is from June 3, 2018

2nd BJP worker found dead in Purulia, state hands probe to CID

2nd BJP worker found dead in Purulia, state hands probe to CID
BJP Mahila Morcha and Yuva Morcha activists take part in a rally against recent killings of BJP's Trilochan Mahato and Dulal Kumar in Purulia, allegedly by the Trinamool Congress party workers, in Kolkata on Saturday, June 02, 2018.
PURULIA: A second BJP worker was found hanging — this time from a high-tension electric transmission tower— in a Purulia village along the Bengal-Jharkhand border early on Saturday. The macabre death comes just 72 hours after a 21-year-old student and BJP supporter was found hanging from a tree with a chilling message of retaliation scrawled on his T-shirt.
The spot where the second body was found at Saturday daybreak is only 15km from the place in Balarampur where the first was found on Wednesday morning.
The back-to-back deaths in an area where the ruling Trinamool Congress suffered reverses in the recently concluded panchayat polls triggered violence and roadblocks prompting the state government to quickly order an inquiry by CID, the state investigating agency, and transfer the SP of Purulia, Joy Biswas.
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh dubbed the government probe an eyewash and demanded a CBI probe into the two deaths. Trinamool secretary general Partha Chatterjee, on the other hand, said mercenaries from Jharkhand could be behind the murders.
Victim Dulal Kumar’s family claimed that the Trinamool Congress was behind the murder. “My husband was killed by Trinamool miscreants out of political rivalry because he had joined BJP seven months ago and led the party to victory in the village booth,” Dulal’s wife said.
Villagers erupted in anger after cops claimed suicide
Dulal Kumar (30), a grocery shop owner, had left his home in Dabha village on his motorcycle on Friday night carrying dinner for his father who slept near his shop at Dabha More on the Balarampur-Bagmundi Road about a kilometre away. Around 8pm, some villagers found it odd that his motorbike was lying by a pond midway but he was nowhere to be seen. When they failed to trace Dulal, villagers informed the
Balampur police, who gathered a huge team and joined the search. The cops and the villagers looked everywhere but did not venture at night into the Matha forest that had a strong Maoist presence till 2011.
On Saturday morning, the villagers were shocked to find Dulal’s body hanging from a high-tension pole, just three-and-a-half feet above the ground, close to Balarampur-Bagmundi Road.
There was an immediate outburst of anger when the police tried to dismiss the mysterious death as “suicide”. The villagers went berserk and blocked the main road at several points, damaged police vehicles, and pelted stones to prevent the cops from taking the body away. The police resorted to lathicharge to beat back the mob and managed to bring down the body at around 2 pm, nine hours after it was spotted. The BJP has called a 12-hour bandh in Purulia on Sunday.
Police held Dulal was depressed over a family dispute and could have killed himself. The victim’s widow, Monica, however, rubbished the claim: “There was no tension in the family.”
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