Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) The hanging body of Sanjoy Das, the Trinamool Congress councillor from Ward Number 18 of South Dum Dum Municipality in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, was recovered under mysterious circumstances from his residence at Nagerbazar area on the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Saturday morning.

On being informed about the incident, the cops from the local police station came to his residence, recovered the body and sent it for post-mortem purposes. Following preliminary investigation, the cops suspect it to be a case of suicide.

However, the police maintained that the actual cause behind the death will be known only after a detailed post-mortem report becomes available. No suicide note was recovered from Das’ bedroom where his hanging body was found on Saturday morning.

The local people said that Das was a close confidant of former Trinamool Congress legislator from the Rajarhat-Gopalpur Assembly constituency and acclaimed devotional singer, Aditi Munshi and her husband, Debraj Chakraborty, who is himself a Trinamool Congress councillor in Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation. Munshi was defeated this time from Rajarhat-Gopalpur Assembly constituency.

They also said that Das had been quite morose ever since the results of the West Bengal Assembly elections were announced on May 4, which marked the landslide defeat of Trinamool Congress.

According to them, the recent detention of Debraj Chakraborty by the police for interrogation over his alleged involvement in a post-poll violence case after the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, had got the deceased Trinamool Congress councillor even more worried.

Locals are wondering whether Das took the extreme step out of extreme anxiety.

Earlier, on Friday, the Calcutta High Court’s single-judge Bench of Justice Jay Sengupta, granted interim protection from coercive police action, including arrest, to Munshi and her husband Chakraborty till June 19 in a case related to disproportionate assets

Justice Sengupta also directed the state government to submit all evidence related to the charges against Munshi and her husband before the court by the next date of hearing.

The state police were directed to submit a progress report on the investigation by the same date

–IANS

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