AGARTALA: In a new twist to the triple murder, police on Friday arrested editor cum owner of Danik Ganadoot, a Bengali daily Sushil Chowdhury has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder.
Earlier, police arrested Niyati Ghosh, wife of slain driver Balaram Ghosh for her alleged involvement in the sensational murder case.
The Special Investigating Team (SIT) armed with the inputs given by Niyati on Friday stormed into the office of the newspaper at Palace Compound and arrested its editor cum owner.
After his arrest, Chowdhury was taken to government hospital where his medical test was conducted after which he was put behind the lock up.
“A specific FIR under section 302 and 35 IPC has been registered against Chowdhury. He will be produced before the court tomorrow,” said Sanjoy Biswas, OC of West Agartala police station.
“We have got enough evidence against the editor cum owner of the newspaper. According to inputs, he may appear as mastermind of the triple murder,” said another police officer associated with the case.
Unknown assailants stormed into the newspaper’s office on May 19 and killed three innocent employees of the daily triggering panic across the state.
For the past few days, senior police officers have been applying full force to get clues from Niyati, wife of slain Balaram Ghosh.
But they could not receive any breakthrough from Niyati, who witnessed the horror killings of three newspaper staff.
Sources claimed Niyati had given some inputs to the investigators indicating Chowdhury’s hand in the triple murder.
Interestingly, the motive of the triple murder is yet to be ascertained.
