Police examining mobiles seized from Aabesh's friends

The Kolkata Police today seized around 20 mobile phones from those, including his friends, who were present on the scene of Aabesh Dasgupta's killing at the car park of an apartment complex in southern part of the city.
Some of the phones were sent for forensic test while the rest were being examined by the Cyber Cell of the police in an effort to retrieve the messages exchanged between the persons through some social networks present at the time of the killing and were deleted afterwards, a senior Kolkata Police official said.
A particular WhatsApp group 'Panda 100' of which Aabesh and his friends were members was also looked into, a source in Lalbazar told PTI.

"This group's chat history can be a crucial lead for our investigation. We are trying to drag out everything from it... Let's see how much it helps," he said.
It was learnt that out of the 15 persons present at the party, a few have "deleted" some of their messages as well as their posts on a couple of social media forum, he said.
Besides the security guards present at the apartment at the time of the incident, police also called up veteran sports journalist and commentator Kishore Bhimani, a member of the apartment's association, for questioning today.

Around seven persons, all minors, present at the spot and some other friends of Aabesh were also called for questioning at Lalbazar today.

A top source in the police said the investigators are trying to match their versions to get a clear picture of what actually happened on the day of the incident.
Seven "friends" of Aabesh, writer Amit Chaudhuri and his daughter were questioned yesterday.
The DD section of the Force this evening arrested the shop owner Soumyadeep Saha and two of his associates -- Rajesh Saha and seller Sudhangshu Dutta for selling liquor to 17-year-old Aabesh and his minor friends.
The police is also looking for the taxi which Aabesh and his friends hired to go to a club to celebrate Amit Chaudhuri's daughter's birthday.

The CCTV footage of the club has been seized for further investigation, another officer confirmed.