One of the principle accused in Bogtui village of Bengal’s Birbhum district, wherein 10 humans had been killed, allegedly died through suicide in CBI custody on Monday. Lalon Sheikh changed into arrested from a hideout in Jharkhand’s Pakur, 8 months after the bloodbath wherein girls and youngsters had been burnt alive.
Lalon Sheikh’s frame will now be taken for a autopsy to Rampurhat Medical College and Hospital. Senior law enforcement officials from the district reached the CBI workplace after the incident. Angry own circle of relatives individuals blocked the street at Bogtui More close to Rampurhat city in West Bengal, worrying movement in opposition to the CBI officials.
The CBI had knowledgeable the nearby police on Monday afternoon that Sheikh has died through suicide even as of their custody. After his arrest, Lalon Sheikh changed into saved withinside the brief camp installation through the CBI after the probe changed into surpassed over to the business enterprise through the Calcutta High Court.
Birbhum Superintendent of Police Nagendra Tripathi instructed reporters, “I acquired records from the CBI DIG’s workplace that Lalon Sheikh, whose interrogation changed into happening has died. We have began out the proceedure this is accompanied in such cases. They knowledgeable the nearby police station round 4:40PM and round 5:00PM, I changed into knowledgeable. It is a UD case. UD case method unnatural demise and the nearby police station will begin an investigation.”
“The proceedure consists of a magisterial inquest and a postmortem. That may be how the reason of demise may be determined. It’s too early to mention anything. There are NHRC and Supreme Court recommendations on unnatural custodial deaths and we are able to comply with them. The CBI knowledgeable us and instructed us it’s far a demise because of hanging,” Nagendra Tripathi added.
The CBI is probing the case at the orders of the Calcutta High Court. The probe business enterprise arrested Sheikh this month, greater than 8 months after the incident. He changed into arrested after months of surveillance installation to trap him, as he had refrained from the police because the incident.
Lalon Sheikh is one of the high accused withinside the March 21 Bogtui violence. He changed into arrested through CBI on December 4. Sheikh is assumed to have led a crowd that set houses on hearthplace in Bogtui main to the demise of ten humans, in the main girls and youngsters.
Lalon Sheikh changed into produced earlier than a Rampurhat courtroom docket on Sunday and despatched to 6 days CBI custody.
Ten people had been killed withinside the Birbhum violence after numerous homes had been set on hearthplace after the homicide of the deputy leader of a gram panchayat and Trinamool’s Bhadu Sheikh. The CBI has been investigating the Bogtui murders case and the homicide of Bhadu Sheikh as well.
The business enterprise has filed a 1192-web page price sheet primarily based totally on eyewitness accounts, protection digital digicam photos and statements through of the 3 girls who died of burn accidents at Rampurhat Medical College and Hospital. An 8-year-vintage female changed into amongst those who died withinside the incident. The CBI price sheet says Bhadu Sheikh’s homicide, whose killing sparked off the violence, changed into the fallout of competition among him and his pals over doubtful land deals, unlawful organizations and a proportion of extortion money.