Overview
- Neighbors discovered 25‑year‑old IT executive Sarthak Sarkar with multiple sharp‑weapon wounds in the Narendrapur flat he shared with his partner and he was declared dead at hospital on Saturday, November 7.
- The partner, 24‑year‑old law student Sanchalika Basu, and her mother, Moumita Basu, were arrested after police reconstructed the scene and questioned household and extended family members.
- Police say interrogations pointed to repeated quarrels over Sarkar’s social‑media interactions and that a sharp object, reportedly a pair of scissors, may have been used in a heated exchange.
- Investigators recorded scratch marks on Sanchalika that police say indicate a struggle and have flagged inconsistencies in family statements while verifying Sanchalika’s reported adoption history.
- Forensic teams collected samples from the sealed flat and officials are awaiting the post‑mortem and laboratory analyses to confirm the exact weapon, cause of death, and sequence of events.