Man beaten to death in Tripura over ‘personal enmity’, one arrested
Agartala, Feb 19, 2023, TRIPURA TIMES Desk
Agartala/ Khowai, Feb 19: A Gram Pradhan was arrested on Sunday on the charge of killing his neighbour following a personal enmity in Khowai district.
The deceased- Dilip Shukla Das (50), a CPM worker, was allegedly attacked by the Gram Pradhan- Krishna Kamal Das and his driver Tapas Das at Dwarikapur area under Kalyanpur police station on Saturday night. He was left seriously injured.
Kalyanpur police responded immediately and shifted the victim to Khowai hospital. The injured person was then referred to GBP hospital where he succumbed to injuries during treatment on the same night.
After the post-mortem, the body was handed over to the deceased’s family.
When the CPM state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury along with Narayan Kar, Pabitra Kar and Manik Dey and a large group of CPM workers tried to take the body to party office, police stopped them near Heritage Park.
As police denied to allow them to take the body to CPM state headquarters on Sunday morning, the CPM leaders and workers protested the incident and staged blockade on the road along with the body.
Meanwhile, a police statement said that the principal accused was already arrested while prima facie it appeared that it was a case of ‘personal enmity’. Police said, raids are underway to arrest the other accused persons. A case was lodged against six accused persons.