AGARTALA: Dissident BJP MLA and former Tripura minister Sudip Roy Barman has demanded charges under Section 302 of the IPC (murder) be framed against the miscreants who attacked Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mujibur Islam Majumdar in August last year. Majumdar, who was undergoing treatment at the SSKM hospital in Kolkata, passed away on Wednesday.
After visiting the family of Majumdar at Badarghat near here on Friday, Barman, who is a strong critic of Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, demanded that Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code must be invoked against the attackers as Majumdar, according to Barman, was murdered.
"After severely attacking Majumdar on August 28 last year, the attackers pinned him down and kicked his chest. I knew him (Majumdar) since my childhood," said Barman, who was accompanied by another dissident BJP MLA, Ashis Kumar Saha.
He said that Majumdar suffered multiple fractures in his hands and legs during the attack.
The Trinamool Congress had alleged in a statement that Majumdar, 56, was brutally attacked by BJP workers and goons at Badarghat in western Tripura where he had gone to take part in the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad's foundation day event on August 28 last year.
Subsequently, Majumdar, the younger brother of a BJP state committee member, was shifted to the SSKM hospital in Kolkata where he was undergoing treatment. He passed away on Wednesday morning, the statement had said.
"We demand justice for Majumdar," the statement added.
The ruling BJP has strongly denied Trinamool's accusations. (IANS)
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