Former CPM MLA shot dead in West Bengal
KOLKATA: A former MLA and CPM leader Dilip Sarkar was shot dead in broad daylight at Burnpur of Asansole, an industrial and coal mine belt of Burdwan district in Bengal bordering Jharkhand on Sunday. Former CPM MLA from Baraboni assembly constituency was a secretariat member of party’s district committee. Locals said that Sarkar, one among the influential CPM leaders of the area, left home for morning walk. Eye witnesses claimed that the assailants were at least four and came on two motorcycles. They shot from a close range and fled in their two-wheelers. It happened around 6.45am and the road was less crowded, so no one could chase or resist the assailants. Police started an investigation, but nobody could be tracked so far in connection with the murder. Locals claimed that one among the assailants was a woman. The district leadership of the CPI(M) rushed to Sarkar’s house and alleged that it was a political murder. (Agencies)
Former CPM MLA shot dead in West Bengal
KOLKATA: A former MLA and CPM leader Dilip Sarkar was shot dead in broad daylight at Burnpur of Asansole, an industrial and coal mine belt of Burdwan district in Bengal bordering Jharkhand on Sunday. Former CPM MLA from Baraboni assembly constituency was a secretariat member of party’s district committee. Locals said that Sarkar, one among the influential CPM leaders of the area, left home for morning walk. Eye witnesses claimed that the assailants were at least four and came on two motorcycles. They shot from a close range and fled in their two-wheelers. It happened around 6.45am and the road was less crowded, so no one could chase or resist the assailants. Police started an investigation, but nobody could be tracked so far in connection with the murder. Locals claimed that one among the assailants was a woman. The district leadership of the CPI(M) rushed to Sarkar’s house and alleged that it was a political murder. (Agencies)
Murder accused carrying Rs.50,000 bounty held
New Delhi: A criminal involved in murder and other cases and carrying a bounty of Rs.50,000 was arrested in the city, police said on Sunday. Ajay Mann alias Billu, who is wanted for standing trial in more than six criminal cases, was arrested from north Delhi’s Mukarba Chowk area on Friday, police said. Mann, a school dropout who runs a dairy, killed a person in May with the help of his associates Ravi Bhardwaj and Ravinder Mann, both of whom are absconding. “Other than the murder, Ajay is involved in more than six criminal cases including a case of threatening a police official,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav. Ajay is a school dropout and runs a dairy. (IANS)
Killer cop arrested in Delhi
Chandigarh: A fugitive policeman accused of three murders, including of a Chandigarh police inspector, has been arrested by Haryana Police from New Delhi, police said on Sunday. Constable Basant Kumar was arrested along with his woman accomplice Sarita. Haryana’s Inspector General of Police Anil Kumar Rao confirmed the arrests. Basant Kumar, under suspension from the Chandigarh Police, had killed a mother-son duo in Haryana’s Sonipat district April 18. He had been on the run ever since with Sarita, with whom he had an affair. Basant Kumar had killed a 55-year-old woman, Roshni, and her son, Sandeep, 23, with his service weapon in Haryana’s Sonipat district in April and absconded with a newly-wed woman, Sarita. Sarita had been married to Sandeep for just three days when the constable attacked and killed the mother-son duo. (IANS)