Family cries foul as Bengali migrant ‘falls to death' in Ggn
Instead, it was the 42-year-old's body that reached Malda on Sunday evening.
While Haryana Police claimed that Shahensha had fallen from the roof of the building where he worked, his family suspects he had been murdered. The Chanchal man had been residing in Gurgaon with his family for 16 years.
On Friday morning, Shahensha had gone to work as usual. However, later in the day, his wife received news that Shahensha had an accident.
She rushed to the complex to find him dead and was told that Shahensha had fallen from the roof. However, the deep wound on his back made her suspicious.
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Police took the body and sent it for a postmortem. The body was then handed over to his wife and the family returned home this evening. "How can he fall from a building he had been working at for so long? We suspect that he was pushed or hit by others... the situation is not at all friendly for Bengalis there," said Shahensha's brother Shaokat Ali.
TMC Malda district President Rahim Bakshi said: "Till now, Bengali workers were being harassed and assaulted... Now one has been killed in a BJP-governed state. We stand with the family and demand a probe over this death."
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