Kolkata: Gunshot heard at Writers' Building, on-duty cop found dead
Kolkata/IBNS: After a gunshot was heard at the Writers' Building in central Kolkata, an on-duty police constable was found dead with a bullet wound near the Press Corner inside the building on Friday late afternoon, reports said.
According to reports, the policeman, from whose service revolver the bullet was fired, was on-duty near Gate Number-6 of the century-old Writers Building.
The Writers' Building was once the main state secretariat until Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee temporarily moved it to Nabanna in Howrah.
Following the incident, a huge police force rushed to the scene and after being recovered the body was sent to hospital.
.jpg)
Senior officials of the city police have reached the scene and an inquiry has been initiated into the incident to know how the bullet was fired.
"Body of the policeman has been sent to hospital and his service revolver has been recovered," a senior Kolkata Police official said.
"We are probing the matter to know how, why and by whom the bullet was fired," he added.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
