BJP worker found dead in West Bengal's Purulia; police say suicide

KOLKATA: Police on Sunday said that the death of BJP worker Dulal Kumar was a case of suicide. In a press conference earlier in the day, Purulia SP Akash Magharia told reporters that police has received the post mortem report. The PM conducted by a five-member team of medical experts clearly cites the cause of death. “It says due to asphyxia, due to hanging, antemortem and suicidal in nature,” Magharia said.“Further enquiry is on,” he added.
Victim Dulal Kumar’s family claimed 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. She demanded that the killers be hanged.
Thirty-year-old Dulal, 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 8 pm, some villagers found it odd that his motorbike was lying by a pond mid-way but he was nowhere to be seen. When they failed to trace Dulal, the villagers informed the Balampur police, who gathered a huge team and joined the search.
On Saturday morning, the villagers were taken aback to find Dulal’s body hanging from a high-tension pole, just three and a half feet above the ground, so near the Balarampur-Bagmundi Road.