Published on: Sept 09, 2025 08:36 am IST
The BJP workers — Sudhir Chandra Paik (65) and Sujit Das (23) — died at a village dance competition organised on Muharram in East Midnapore’s Khejuri. The Calcutta high court on Monday questioned the role of the police officer who initially investigated the alleged murder of two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in East Midnapore district on July 12, lawyers who attended the hearing said.
The Calcutta high court. (PTI File Photo) “The division bench of justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi had earlier ordered the state to collect phone call records of the suspects named in the FIR and people involved in the investigation. After going through the preliminary call records submitted on Monday, the bench asked why the doctor who conducted the first post mortem examination was called up by the investigating officer (IO) several times before and after the autopsy,” a lawyer said, requesting anonymity.
The BJP workers — Sudhir Chandra Paik (65) and Sujit Das (23) — died at a village dance competition organised on Muharram in East Midnapore’s Khejuri. While the local police said after the postmortem that the two accidentally died of electrocution, their families and the district BJP unit levelled charges of communal motives.
“Why should the IO call the postmortem doctor so many times?” the court asked.
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