Four months on, body of BJP worker handed to kin
The Hindu
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Four months after the death in poll violence of BJP worker Abhijit Sarkar, the body was handed over to his family on Thursday. Sarkar was killed in post poll violence on May 2 in Kolkata’s Kankurgachi area. Among the incidents of post poll violence, the death of Sarkar had triggered a political war of words between the BJP and Trinamool Congress. His family had refused to accept the body from the local police on grounds that they could not identify it. The family had also moved the court questioning the report of the first post-mortem. On July 2, the court had ordered a second autopsy. The question of identity was also heard by a five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, which ordered a DNA test to ascertain the identity of the body. The DNA test confirmed that those mortal remains were those of Sarkar. The family had earlier this week moved the Sealdah Court, which directed the hospital authorities to hand over remains to them.More Related News