BJP state president Rahul Sinha visited the house of Sourav Chowdhury, whose dismembered body was found yesterday beside the railway line at Duttapukur, and demanded a CBI investigation into the killing.
"As the accused persons are from the ruling party, we do not feel that the state police will be able to hold an independent probe, so we want a CBI investigation into the killing," Sinha said, claiming that the 21-year old student was a BJP activist.
"I can tell you that Sourav was a TMCP supporter. His family members may have been supporters of a different party, but he was certainly with us," he told reporters.
"The main accused Shyamal Karmakar was seen in several BJP rallies in the locality," Mullick, the West Bengal Food and Supplies minister, claimed.
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The BJP state president, however, claimed the opposite saying that while Karmakar was a Trinamool Congress supporter, the slain student was a BJP activist.
Meanwhile, Anup Talukdar, who was one of the accused named in the FIR, was arrested in a raid in the area on the charges of kidnapping and murdering Sourav Chowdhury, Additional Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Mukherjee said.
Talukdar was later produced before the Barasat district court and was remanded to seven-day police custody.
Sourav's severed body was found between Bamungachi and Duttapukur railway stations yesterday morning. The 21-year-old student was kidnapped by a gang from near his house.