Bengal

Kolkata: A day after the deaths of Satyajit Ghosh—younger son of key Sandeshkhali violence witness Bholanath Ghosh—and the family’s car driver, Shahnoor Molla, a complaint was lodged at the Rajbari outpost under the Basirhat Police District against eight persons.

Based on Bholanath’s complaint, police have initiated a case on charges of murder and attempt to murder.

Bholanath had alleged on Wednesday that the truck which rammed his car head-on at Boyarmari in Nazat was part of a deliberate attempt to kill him. He claimed that the vehicle was being driven by one Alim Molla, said to be close to suspended Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan of Sandeshkhali. According to him, Alim walked a short distance after the crash before fleeing on the pillion of a motorcycle.

In his co

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