Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy was named in a police complaint here on Sunday in the Trinamool Congress legislator Satyajit Biswas murder case, police said. Biswas, a popular Dalit leader, was shot dead by unidentified assailants while he was attending a Saraswati Puja programme in the Nadia district on Saturday.
Biswas represented Krishnaganj constituency in the West Bengal Assembly. “Two accused, Kartick Mondol and Sujit Mondol, have been arrested,” a senior police officer said. According to locals, there was several “load shedding during the programme” and they smelt a conspiracy behind the outages. The TMC and the BJP have been engaged in a bitter war of words since the killing. (IANS)
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