West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee speaks to family of Bhawanipore murder victims, assures speedy probe
India Today
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee spoke to the family of Bhawanipore murder victims and assured a speedy investigation.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday spoke to the family of an elderly couple, who were found murdered at their home in Kolkata’s Bhawanipore, and assured speedy investigation.
Mamata Banerjee spoke on the phone with the daughter of the slain couple. The chief minister assured her that the murder case would be solved soon.
A businessman and his wife were found murdered at their residence in Harish Mukherjee Road in the Bhawanipore area of south Kolkata on Monday. The deceased have been identified as Ashok Shah (60) and his wife Rashmita Shah (52), both hailing from a Gujarati business family based out of Kolkata.
According to police, the deceased couple's daughter could not reach them over the phone since morning, following which she reached their residence in the evening and found the main door open. On entering the house, she found the bodies of her parents in a pool of blood.
The police found that all the cupboards in the house were open. The initial probe suggested that it was a case of a robbery attempt which the couple resisted, following which the miscreants killed them. Further investigation is underway.
