Overview
- Thirty-six-year-old Sujit Mondal went missing on August 28 and his family received a ransom call the same day, police say; CCTV later showed a suspect taking him to a rented house and leaving with large bags.
- On September 4 investigators recovered a severed leg from a local canal that was identified as Mondal’s and search teams continued looking for additional remains.
- Police have arrested three people — Samiul (Samium) Sheikh, Tajkira Bibi and Jony (Jani) Sheikh — and say preliminary inquiries point to a financial dispute over money Mondal had lent to an accused.
- Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced on September 7 that the case will be handled by the West Bengal CID and ordered suspensions, transfers and inquiries for multiple Murshidabad officers for failing to act on the family’s repeated pleas.
- The state has offered the family Rs 10 lakh from the chief minister’s Relief Fund and a conditional home-guard job for Mondal’s wife, and the CID takeover could heighten forensic scrutiny and shape any future prosecution.