TMC leader Saifuddin Laskar shot dead, assailant lynched
The Hindu
In Joynagar, W.B., a TMC leader was shot dead, leading to the lynching of an alleged assailant by a mob. Local MLA blamed goons supported by CPI(M) and BJP for the murder.
A local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader was shot dead at Joynagar in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on November 13 morning, which led to the lynching of an alleged assailant by a mob, police said.
Saifuddin Laskar (47), TMC area president of Bamungachi area in Joynagar was shot dead from close range near his house by miscreants when he went out to offer prayers in the morning, the police said.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him ‘brought dead’.
Enraged supporters of Laskar, whose wife is a panchayat pradhan, caught two of the alleged assailants and lynched one of them. Another was rescued and arrested by the police, which rushed to the spot.
A large police contingent was deployed in the area after the incident.
Local MLA Biswanath Das claimed that goons supported by the CPI(M) and the BJP were behind the murder.
Eyewitnesses and police said that a number of houses were ransacked, looted and set on fire in neighbouring Daluakhali village after the incident.
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