Police Arrest Wife and Alleged Lover After BJP Worker's Death in West Bengal

Overview

• Kishor Majhi, 39, a local BJP booth vice-president, was found grievously injured near a pond by his home late Monday, and doctors at Raidighi Rural Hospital declared him dead.
• Police recovered the body, sent it for a post-mortem, detained three people for questioning, and then arrested his wife, Anima Das, and her alleged lover, Gobinda Haldar.
• The Sundarbans police chief said interrogations are underway, and investigators are focusing first on a suspected personal-relationship dispute.
• A relative accused Haldar of the attack and said the family sees no political angle, countering BJP leaders who blamed Trinamool Congress and urged police and the Election Commission to act.
• Trinamool figures rejected claims of a political plot and called it a love-triangle case, in a district where such killings quickly draw election-season scrutiny and often turn into party flashpoints.