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Bengal Sub-Inspector Arrested, Remanded in Home Guard Death Probe

A special team led by ASP Parapantar Sengupta is examining the case following a family murder complaint.

Overview

  • The SIT tracked and arrested Sub-Inspector Sayan Bhattacharya in the Swarupnagar area of Basirhat after he went missing.
  • He was produced before the Alipore court and remanded to seven days of police custody.
  • The 22-year-old home guard was found hanging on December 27 in her quarters at Canning police station.
  • Her family alleges she was murdered over a relationship with the officer, while investigators continue to examine the cause of death.
  • A six-member SIT headed by ASP Parapantar Sengupta is leading the probe, and reports note her father, a TMC worker, was killed two years earlier.