TMC worker shot dead in broad daylight in Naihati: Police; party suspect BJP hand

“Santosh Yadav was passing by the Gauripur country erstwhile the transgression took place. He managed to snatch distant the revolver from the archetypal attacker aft the archetypal incidental of firing. However, helium could not prevention himself arsenic the different miscreants fired astatine him 4 times. One slug deed him successful the head,” a constabulary serviceman said.

Yadav was declared “brought dead” erstwhile taken to the Naihati State General Hospital, helium said.

An probe is underway and a manhunt has been launched to way the culprits, the constabulary serviceman added.
Following the incident, the TMC blamed the BJP for the execution of Yadav.

Naihati MLA Sanat Dey alleged that it was a execution by the BJP-backed criminals.

“Santosh Yadav, an progressive idiosyncratic of our enactment was surrounded by 8-10 people. These were hooligans of Arjun Singh, Rajesh Shaw, Chintu Singh, full 10 persons are down his murder. They fired 4 rounds. He received 1 slug connected forehead, 1 connected chemoreceptor and 1 adjacent collar bone. After Arjun Singh mislaid successful Lok Sabha helium had tried his champion to termination Yadav,” Dey alleged.

Countering the allegations, BJP person Arjun Singh from Barrackpore, claimed that the execution was the effect of a idiosyncratic quality betwixt Yadav and Rajesh Shaw.

“Santosh Yadav had changeable astatine Rajesh Shaw 2 years ago, helium had someway managed to past the attack. Shaw and Yadav person idiosyncratic and household disputes…,” Singh said.

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