INTTUC leader Kedar Pal, who allegedly killed an electrical goods contractor of an ECL mine here, was today remanded in police custody by a court in Durgapur.
The ACJM, Durgapur, after hearing the plea of the police, remanded Pal, who is the unit secretary of the INTTUC- affiliated Colliery Kisan Shramik Committee, to seven days' police custody.
Police have lodged a case against Pal, a foreman in the ECL mine, under section 302 of IPC for killing Ashim Mukherjee, 40-year-old electrical goods contractor, in a fit of rage after a tiff.
After commiting the crime, Pal went to Ukhra police outpost and surrendered. The police later arrested him.
