The death of a hotelier after he was threatened, allegedly by a Trinamool Congress activist, sparked outrage on Tuesday with Bengal's opposition parties Tuesday accusing the ruling party of “shielding the guilty” and urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to rein in criminals.
Police have registered a case of unnatural death. On the other hand, a Trinamool municipal councilor attributed the death to ‘tension’ triggered by family issues.Sumit Naha, who owned a lodge in Howrah, died following a heart attack at his residence at Baguiati in Kolkata’s north eastern outskirts early Monday with his family alleging that he could not bear the incessant threats and intimidation by local Trinamool activists.
Naha’s mother Manju claimed that her son was being threatened to withdraw a police complaint he had filed after his manager Ashish Manna was assaulted and threatened in the lodge by a gangster having links with the Trinamool.The family in a police complaint has submitted CCTV footage which shows a gangster, claimed to be a Trinamool activist, assaulting the manager.