A Maharashtra police team today met the members of the bereaved family of the slain navy sailor Suraj Kumar Dubey at village Purabdeeha under Chainpur police station in Palamau.
Sources said the 3-member team led by a sub-inspector of police. Sources said the team had arrived Daltonganj on Monday evening itself but it postponed to visit the bereaved family.
Monday was the day of the cremation and it started too late in the after where the rites on the burning ghat went till late in the evening. Officer in charge of the Chainpur police station Uday Kumar Gupta has confirmed the arrival and visit of the Maharashtra team at the house of Dubey today. Gupta said the team took statements of the father, mother, brothers and sister of the killed navy sailor. Sources said the family is understood to have not suspected any one for the horrible killing of their son.
Gupta said he would not share anything that the Maharashtra police gathered from the family members. MP, Palamu, V D Ram has shot off a letter to Chief Minister Hemant Soren requesting him for the recommendation for the CBI probe. The MP has pointed out that without the recommendation of the concerned State the Union Home ministry can't proceed any further in launching the CBI probe.
Today Mayor Aruna Shanker visited the family and assured the family members of full co-operation in the hour of the tragedy.
Navy sailor Suraj was abducted in Chennai, given sub human torture there and then fifteen hundred kilometers away in Palghar of Maharashtra he was set afire alive and abandoned thinking him to be dead with ninety percent of the burns. The Navy sailor finally succumbed to his injuries on February 6. MP Palamu V D Ram has raised many pointed queries about this longest stretch between Chennai and Palghar for dumping the navy sailor as a dead commodity.