MALDA: A Trinamool Congress functionary was gunned down and one other critically wounded round 9pm Saturday when a gang of eight to 10 fired gunshots at them whereas they had been having dinner at a roadside dhaba in Islampur in Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district, about 510km north of Kolkata . The homicide of Bapi Ray, 36, sparked daylong sporadic protests and roadblocks Sunday, with celebration employees and locals demanding arrest of the assailants.Ray’s spouse Lipi demanded a CBI probe into the assault.
In keeping with sources, enterprise rivalry might be the homicide motive. Ray was jailed earlier than for his involvement within the illicit liquor commerce. Police mentioned an inter-state manhunt has been launched. Dhaba employees had been interrogated and CCTV footage checked.
Ray was consuming with M Sajjad – whose spouse Rajnur Khatun is Ramganj gram panchayat pradhan – and some different Trinamool employees when the gunmen arrived in a automotive. They shot Ray in his chest and throat a number of occasions from shut vary and went away. Sajjad was additionally hit. The 2 had been taken to Islampur subdivisional hospital, the place Ray was declared useless. Sajjad later informed reporters he couldn’t recognise the assailants.
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