Kolkata: Two persons were arrested while the Officer-In-Charge (OC) of Hanskhali Police Station was suspended today in connection with the assassination of West Bengal MLA Satyajit Biswas.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA from Krishnaganj, was shot dead in West Bengal’s Nadia district by some unidentified assailants on Saturday evening.
Biswas was at a Saraswati Puja inaugural event when the incident took place. He was immediately rushed to the nearby Shaktinagar district hospital, where he was declared dead, the police said.
TMC leader SK Guha said, “He was a very nice person and a popular leader. According to eyewitnesses, he was killed by two to four assailants at a Saraswati Pooja programme in his village.”