Samiul Sheikh
Police said she had left the venue around 11.30pm after receiving a phone call. Das was arrested on charges of raping and murdering the 17-year-old. Mondal, 46, a BJP worker from ward 13 of Dhulian Municipality and a friend of Samiul, had been missing since Aug 28. On Sept 4, Mondal’s body parts were retrieved from a river.
Because he had been pressuring a friend in Farakka to repay a debt, his wife Sumana lodged a missing person complaint and told police that her husband could be in danger.
About the Gaighata incident, he said, “Police retaliated after being attacked. After the Baruipur incident, he had said, “If mothers and sisters… are subjected to oppression, we will not spare those responsible. CID sources said Samiul initially denied his involvement in the murder, but later admitted that he had lured Mondal to an isolated spot near the Shamsherganj-Farakka border, strangled him to death, hacked his body and dumped the parts into the river near the Ballalpur bridge.
He asserted that hooliganism would not be tolerated and those taking the law into their hands would face action through due legal process. Police have explained the matter in detail. It would not be appropriate for me to comment further. Speaking about the Shamsherganj incident, CM Adhikari rejected the suggestion that the political affiliation of the person who was murdered should determine how the incident was viewed, adding police could not remain passive when someone took the law into his hands. The next day, her naked and battered body was found behind the house of Prahlad Das, a distant relative. he allegedly asked the cops escorting him to stop at a spot near Baidyabati, around 4km from the India-Bangladesh border, so he could relieve himself While returning. He then allegedly snatched a sub-inspector’s revolver and fired three rounds before trying to flee. Police questioned Samiul, Tajkira Bibi and Johny Sheikh.
CM Suvendu Adhikari said while coming out of the Bengal police headquarters in Bhavani Bhawan on Tuesday evening that he had given police a free hand in two areas: action against drug abuse and narcotics trafficking, and crime against women. In Gaighata, a Class XI student went missing on Saturday after attending a musical programme near home. Late on Monday, police took Das to the crime scene to reconstruct the events leading to the rape and murder.