West Bengal: 2 arrested for alleged murder of father, son in Murshidabad violence
The West Bengal Police on Tuesday arrested two men accused of the murder of a father and son in Murshidabad during violent protests against the Waqf Amendment Act, The Telegraph reported.
Harogobindo Das, 72, and his 40-year-old son Chandan Das were killed allegedly by a mob on Saturday in the district’s Shamsherganj area.
Supratim Sarkar, the additional director general of police (South Bengal), told reporters that Asmaul Nadab alias Kalu Nadab and Dildar Nadab, who are brothers, have been arrested.
Kalu Nadab was arrested from Birbhum district’s Murarai and Dildar Nadab was held in Murshidabad’s Suti area, the newspaper quoted Sarkar as saying.
The two men will be produced in court on Tuesday.
The widow of Harogobindo Das alleged in the first information report that a mob had dragged her husband and son out of their home and murdered them, The Telegraph reported. “Though there were many people, the murder was committed by few people,” she alleged in the FIR, naming five suspects.
While Kalu Nadab was named as one of the suspects on the list, his brother Dildar was not, the newspaper reported.
Izaz Ahmed Sheikh, a 17-year-old who sustained bullet injuries in police firing on Friday in Suti, succumbed to his injuries a day later.
The police on Monday said that more than 200 persons had been arrested in connection with recent violent protests in Murshidabad.
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