Kolkata, February 25 Tension prevailed throughout the day in the Pilkhana area under the Howrah city police commissionerate in West Bengal after a real estate developer was shot dead by assailants at close range in full public view in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
The incident, the chilling visuals of which were captured on CCTV cameras, took place around 4.10 am before a tea stall in Second Bye Lane in Pilkhana, a slum area in the Golabari PS area of the city.
Till reports last received, no arrests were made in connection with the murder. One of the assailants was identified as Harun Khan, whom the opposition BJP alleged had close links with local TMC MLA Goutam Chowdhury.
While a mob brutally assaulted Mayukh Thakur Chakraborty, a correspondent with vernacular news channel ABP Ananda, when he reached the spot to cover the incident later in the day, enraged locals alleged police inaction, blocked the adjacent GT Road and burned tires, prompting the police and RAF to conduct route marches in the area.
CCTV footage of the incident, which could not be independently verified by
