liberally indulged by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and stoutly backed by senior leaders and MPs like Tapas Paul of the Bengal ruling outfit alleged miscreants of the Trinamool Congress bumped off yet another crusader, a college student for protesting against illicit liquor trade, extortion and other related crimes.
Apparently encouraged by Paul’s public speech in which he was shown directing his party cronies to rape, murder and cut into pieces their political opponents a band of Trinamool goons on Friday night abducted and brutally murdered Sourav Chowdhury a second-year college student.
The incident took place at Bamangachi in North 24 Paraganas, not very far from Sutia where a school teacher Barun Biswas was murdered in broad day light exactly two years ago for raising his voice against continuing cases of gang-rapes again committed allegedly by Trinamool-backed goons.
Sourav, a habitual crusader, is reportedly the son of a local BJP activist who was organising the locals against mushrooming liquor dens and extortion rackets run by Shyamal Karmakar, a henchman of a TMC Minister.
The boy was shot dead and then his body was cut up into nine pieces before being thrown at the railway line between Bamangachi and Duttapukur, locals said alleging the police turned a blind eye to the repeated complaints being lodged against the miscreants.
The tragedy did not end there. When the shocked locals spontaneously rose up in protest blockading roads and railways the cops swung into action resorting to heavy lathi-charge, sources said.
“The boy was a BJP supporter and had to pay with his life for protesting against the goondaraj of this Government,” party leader Samik Bhattacharya said, adding the police instead of catching the miscreants beat up the locals among whom there was a lawyer and a teacher.
The BJP had called a dawn-to-dusk bandh at Bamangachi. State party president Rahul Sinha would lead a team of party leaders to the spot on Sunday. District SP Tanmoy Roychowdhury said police had lodged an FIR.