Alipurduar, March 23: A leader of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad was lynched this morning to allegedly avenge a murder that had taken place last month.
Alexander Minj, 36, the vice-president of the Parishad’s Banarhat block, was called out of his house reportedly by workers of the Telepara tea estate around 8.30am, tied with ropes to a tree and was beaten to death, police said.
One person has been arrested. After the incident, alleged Parishad members set up a blockade on NH31 around 11am near Telepara, 75km from here. The agitation was withdrawn at 2.30pm following the police intervention.
John Barla, the president of the Parishad’s Dooars-Terai Coordination Committee, said the body of Baburam Oraon had been found along the railway tracks in Binnaguri on February 22. “No one knows who killed Baburam, but his relatives wrongfully blamed Minj for the murder. Today, about 30 people called him out of his house and beat him to death. We have filed an FIR naming the 30.” He said Parishad men were not involved in the blockade. “I have told the police that they (the squatters) were not our supporters.”
The additional superintendent of police of Jalpaiguri, V.S.N. Kumar, said: “We have arrested a woman. The motive of the killing seems to be revenge for a murder in Binnaguri last month.”
Source: The Telegraph
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