Overview
- Family members found Bristi Mukherjee hanging at her Kusumba village house and alerted Rampurhat police on Tuesday, September 1, who recovered the body and sent it for autopsy.
- Authorities have registered an unnatural‑death case, are questioning relatives, and say the post‑mortem and further inquiries will determine whether the death was suicide.
- Relatives and police cited a long history of depression and ongoing divorce proceedings as background to her death, with family saying she had been under psychiatric care.
- Mukherjee had held a Group C non‑teaching post that was later cancelled in the long‑running West Bengal school recruitment litigation that struck down thousands of appointments.
- The case has local political sensitivity because her father is a TMC leader and Mamata Banerjee’s cousin, and officials say they will wait for forensic findings before linking the death to personal or job‑loss factors.