CPI-M leader killed in Bengal, Trinamool blamed

Kolkata March 23 (IANS) A local CPI-M leader was brutally killed in West Bengal s South 24 Parganas district police said on Thursday. The CPI-M blamed the ruling Trinamool Congress for the crime.

Salauddin Haldar a Communist Party of India-Marxist leader was first shot in front of his house in Mathurapur on Wednesday evening and then repeatedly stabbed to death with a sharp weapon a police officer said.

The CPI-M alleged that Haldar was killed by Trinamool Congress-backed goons and accused the police of inaction when he received death threats.

Haldar was killed by Trinamool-backed goons. He was given death threats by local Trinamool leaders. When he went to the police they refused to accept his complaint and instead threatened to arrest him in a false case CPI-M General Secretary Surya Kanta Misra said on Thursday.

Police denied the allegation saying they have no record of Haldar approaching them.

We are not aware he came to lodge a complaint. We are looking for the miscreants the officer added.

--IANS
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