Bengal Town Tense After Trinamool Leader Shot Dead, Suspect Beaten To Death

Tensions erupted in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas on Monday after a local Trinamool Congress leader was shot dead and a villager, alleged to be associated with the murder, was counter-lynched. The local TMC leader and panchayat member Saifuddin Lashkar was shot dead by some unknown assailants from a close range while he was going to a local mosque for morning prayers, according to an IANS report.

Following news of Lashkar's death a section of the villagers especially those affiliated to the ruling party, got furious.

They identified two individuals from the village and started beating them severely, the report stated, adding that the police somehow rescued one of them while the other was lynched by the mob at the spot. The police have refused to identify the lynched and arrested individuals, although they claimed that the arrested individual has confessed about his involvement in Lashkar’s murder.