West Bengal: TMC Councillor of Howrah corporation held on murder charge
According to reports, the ruling party Councillor was detained by local police on Monday night and after hour-long interrogation, he was booked on Tuesday morning.
Earlier on June 17 last year, a middle-aged security-guard of an apartment, Bijay Mallick, was shot dead by few miscreants at his workplace in central Howrah's Round Tank Lane area.
Based on CCTV footage and eyewitnesses' accounts, police identified his killers and booked five miscreants, including prime accused in the case- Sanjay Jadav.
A local police official told IBNS that the five accused confessed their involvement in the crime and also claimed that TMC Councillor Sailesh Rai had paid them money for murdering the security-guard.
Sailesh Rai was produced in a local court later in the afternoon and was remanded to seven-day police custody for further interrogation.
The arrested leader of state's ruling party, however, denied his involvement in the murder while no reaction has been received so far from the party leadership.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha, Image of held TMC Councillor Sailesh Rai from his Facebook profile)
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