CPI activist beaten to death in Begusarai

BEGUSARAI: A CPI activist was beaten to death on Saturday for demanding the money he had lent to the accused, Kari Sah.
Police sources said the deceased, Ram Sewak Poddar, was a former district secretary of AISF and used to run a grocery shop at Parihara Bazar under Parihara police outpost area in Begusarai district.
When he asked Kari to return him the money he had borrowed, the accused started thrashing Ram Sewak at the shop itself.
“People present there somehow pacified Kari, who went home. However, when Ram Sewak was on way to his home after downing the shutters of his shop late in the evening, Kari intercepted and assaulted him brutally. This caused his death on the spot,” his family members alleged at the Sadar hospital where the body was sent for postmortem on Sunday.
Following the news of Ram Sewak’s death, angry villagers blocked traffic on Bakhri-Khagaria road Saturday night. The blockade was lifted only after Bakhri SDPO Chandan Kumar assured them to arrest the accused soon. Bakhri MLA Surya Kant Paswan, who belongs to the CPI, also reached the spot.
“Kari is an addict and was in an inebriated condition even when he attacked Ram Sewak,” his family members said.
The SDPO said the accused and his family members were absconding. Ram Sewak was also a former member of the local panchayat samiti.