Birbhum, Mukesh Tiwari In the last week of April last week, a blood-stained and tied body of doctor Madan Lal Chowdhary (80) was recovered from his house at Nalhati in Birbhum district of West Bengal. His murder was confirmed in the postmortem. After registering the case, the police involved in the investigation arrested another accused on Sunday night. His name has been told as Rajesh Sheikh. With this, a total of six arrests have been made in the case so far.
A total of six arrests have been made in the case so far.
It has been told that on April 24 last, the bloody dead body of an elderly doctor was found from his house on the second floor of the house near the railway gate in ward four of Nalhati municipality of Nalhati police station area of Birbhum. After getting the information, the police had reached there and got the dead body done from Rampurhat Medical College and Hospital. Dr. Madan Lal Chowdhary was a well-known physician. He contested the general elections twice on a BJP ticket from the Birbhum Lok Sabha seat. However, both times he had to defeat the CPI(M) candidate.
Fought general election twice from Birbhum on BJP ticket
The demonstration was organized by the Birbhum district BJP on the demand of CBI inquiry into the incident. Rampurhat SDPO Dhiman Mitra said that on April 30, five days after the incident, five accused were arrested. After this, the accused Rajesh Sheikh was also nabbed on Sunday night. He is a resident of Ward 12 and an active Congress worker. The remaining five accused are currently behind bars in judicial custody. On Monday, the police has given an application to take the accused Rajesh Sheikh in remand for 10 days by presenting him in the Rampurhat divisional court.