BJYM activist’s post-mortem report signifies demise by hanging; TMC asks Shah to apologise

By PTI

KOLKATA: The post-mortem report of BJYM activist Arjun Chourasia, performed by Command Hospital right here and submitted to Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, indicated that he died by hanging and the ligature mark on his neck was ante-mortem in nature.

The report submitted the autopsy report in a sealed cowl earlier than a division bench presided by Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava.

The Trinamool Congress was fast to launch an assault on the BJP which had been holding demonstrations after the physique of the activist was discovered hanging in an deserted home in addition to an apology from Union Home Minister Amit Shah who had described it as a “political murder”.

Shah had visited Kashipur and demanded a CBI probe into Chourasia’s demise, claiming a tradition of violence and a concern psychosis prevailed in West Bengal.

“The union home minister had called it a political murder even before the probe was over. He should now apologise to the people for trying to tarnish the image of the state,” senior TMC chief and minister Shashi Panja mentioned.

The TMC chief added, “The BJP is continuously maligning the people of Bengal. This stems from its failure to win the assembly election.”

Reacting to the TMC remarks, the state BJP unit mentioned it might not be proper to touch upon a sub-judice matter.

The post-mortem was performed by a staff of specialists constituted by the top of Command Hospital, a defence healthcare institution, as per an order of the court docket handed on Friday.

The bench famous in its order that the findings referring to the reason for demise of Chourasia is “hanging” and the ligature mark on his neck is “ante-mortem”.

The autopsy report was handed over by the court docket to Advocate General S N Mookherjee representing the West Bengal authorities. It directed that the viscera pattern be handed over to police authority involved.

BJP chief and lawyer Priyanka Tibrewal had submitted earlier to the court docket that the household doesn’t place confidence in the investigation being performed by the Kolkata Police, which has already fashioned a particular investigation staff to probe Chourasia’s demise.

Claiming that Chourasia was one in every of many BJP staff who needed to go away their houses throughout post-poll violence and had just lately returned to his residence, Tibrewal additionally prayed earlier than the court docket that the case be handed over to the CBI in accordance with its earlier order that directed probe by the central company in circumstances of murders, rapes and makes an attempt to rape that occurred after the 2021 West Bengal meeting elections.

AG submitted that the police has fashioned an SIT to analyze the matter, treating it as a case of unnatural demise. The bench directed that the matter shall be taken up for listening to once more on May 19.