October 05, 2026 09:43 pm (IST)
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ITI student lynched in West Bengal: CID takes over probe
Kolkata, May 13 (IBNS): After being instructed by the department of Chief Minister, West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Friday started investigation into the ITI student lynching incident in state's South 24 Parganas district, officials said.
After taking charge of the investigation, six officials of the CID on Friday afternoon visited the village and the spot, where the student was beaten to death.
CID officials recorded eye-witnesses' accounts and discussed with the investigation-officer (IO) of local police station as well.
The investigation team would interrogate the jailed accused later, an official of CID told IBNS.
Earlier on Monday night, ITI student Kaushik Purkait was badly beaten up by angry villagers at Bahadurpur village under Diamond Harbour Police Station limits in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, over a false allegation of buffalo-stealing.
A local leader of Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, Tapas Mullick, allegedly led the lynching and prevented his family members from taking seriously injured Kaushik to hospital until they promised to pay a large amount of rupees as compensation.
Kaushik, however, died later in Kolkata's SSKM Hospital.
In the FIR, Kaushik's family members named ten persons as offenders. After beginning probe into the case, police have arrested six persons, including main accused TMC leader Tapas Mullick, in connection with the case so far and they all are in police custody.
Meanwhile, the TMC has not taken any step against Tapas Mullick yet. "I won't comment on this matter, until I receive reports from South 24 Parganas district committee," party's secretary general Partha Chatterjee told the media on Friday.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
#West Bengal
# ITI student lynched
# Tapas Mullick
# Partha Chatterjee
# TMC
# CID
# Kaushik Purkait
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