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Main accused in homicide of two Kolkata teenagers held; moms search loss of life penalty

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By PTI

KOLKATA: The prime suspect within the homicide of two 17-year-old boys from Kolkata was arrested in West Bengal’s Howrah district on Friday morning, police mentioned.

Satyendra Choudhury, the principle accused within the twin homicide case, was apprehended by a particular workforce from Howrah railway station as he was attempting to flee, a senior officer of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate mentioned.

Four alleged accomplices of Choudhury have been earlier held in reference to the incident.

Family members of the 2 boys — Atanu Dey and Abhisek Naskar — mentioned they might need Choudhury and others concerned within the double homicide be given loss of life penalty.

“The police could not return Atanu. They could not prevent his murder. Now, my only wish is to see his tormentor and murderer getting death penalty,” the grief-stricken mom informed reporters who gathered at her residence in Jagatpur locality of Baguihati.

“He (the prime accused) ran a bike repair shop in our locality, and was addressed as ‘Kaku’ (uncle) by Atanu. My son blindly trusted him when he promised to get Atanu a fancy second-hand bike. And he abducted my son and killed him. Such a person can be a threat to society if allowed to live,” the mom maintained.

Naskar’s mom mentioned the 2 youngsters might be alive had the police been proactive.

“If only the police had shown the same alacrity when we lodged the missing diary as it did in nabbing the accused, my child would have been alive. We want nothing short of a death penalty for the culprits,” she acknowledged.

State Congress president Adhir Choudhury met the grieving members of the family through the day.

He sought a probe to seek out out “what led the police to delay its proceedings”.

On Thursday, TMC MP Sougata Roy, state hearth minister Sujit Bose and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor Firhad Hakim had visited the properties of the boys and promised motion in opposition to the accused.

Roy had additionally castigated the police for “faltering in the investigation process”.

Earlier, members of the BJP’s girls wing in addition to CPI(M) activists had held separate demonstrations exterior Baguiati police station on September 7.

Bodies of two boys have been discovered at a morgue in Basirhat on September 6, virtually a fortnight after they went lacking.

The police later mentioned that the duo was strangled to loss of life.

Local police within the Malancha space of North 24 Parganas district had noticed the our bodies on Basanti Highway and brought them to the morgue.

The state authorities had on Wednesday suspended the inspector in-charge and one other officer of the Baguiati Police Station, the place a lacking grievance was lodged by the mother and father of the boys.

The case has now been handed over to the state CID.

KOLKATA: The prime suspect within the homicide of two 17-year-old boys from Kolkata was arrested in West Bengal’s Howrah district on Friday morning, police mentioned.

Satyendra Choudhury, the principle accused within the twin homicide case, was apprehended by a particular workforce from Howrah railway station as he was attempting to flee, a senior officer of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate mentioned.

Four alleged accomplices of Choudhury have been earlier held in reference to the incident.

Family members of the 2 boys — Atanu Dey and Abhisek Naskar — mentioned they might need Choudhury and others concerned within the double homicide be given loss of life penalty.

“The police could not return Atanu. They could not prevent his murder. Now, my only wish is to see his tormentor and murderer getting death penalty,” the grief-stricken mom informed reporters who gathered at her residence in Jagatpur locality of Baguihati.

“He (the prime accused) ran a bike repair shop in our locality, and was addressed as ‘Kaku’ (uncle) by Atanu. My son blindly trusted him when he promised to get Atanu a fancy second-hand bike. And he abducted my son and killed him. Such a person can be a threat to society if allowed to live,” the mom maintained.

Naskar’s mom mentioned the 2 youngsters might be alive had the police been proactive.

“If only the police had shown the same alacrity when we lodged the missing diary as it did in nabbing the accused, my child would have been alive. We want nothing short of a death penalty for the culprits,” she acknowledged.

State Congress president Adhir Choudhury met the grieving members of the family through the day.

He sought a probe to seek out out “what led the police to delay its proceedings”.

On Thursday, TMC MP Sougata Roy, state hearth minister Sujit Bose and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor Firhad Hakim had visited the properties of the boys and promised motion in opposition to the accused.

Roy had additionally castigated the police for “faltering in the investigation process”.

Earlier, members of the BJP’s girls wing in addition to CPI(M) activists had held separate demonstrations exterior Baguiati police station on September 7.

Bodies of two boys have been discovered at a morgue in Basirhat on September 6, virtually a fortnight after they went lacking.

The police later mentioned that the duo was strangled to loss of life.

Local police within the Malancha space of North 24 Parganas district had noticed the our bodies on Basanti Highway and brought them to the morgue.

The state authorities had on Wednesday suspended the inspector in-charge and one other officer of the Baguiati Police Station, the place a lacking grievance was lodged by the mother and father of the boys.

The case has now been handed over to the state CID.