TIWN
AGARTALA, June 7 (TIWN): Highly placed intelligence reports said this evening that Sandeep Kumar – BSF Jawan was murdered late night on Friday in cold blood instead of public fury amidst indiscriminate firing on villagers at South Ramnagar area.
The clash between BSF jawans and local residents of South Ramnagar adjoining Indo-Bangla international border in Tripura’s Akhaura frontier left nine villagers seriously injured and two persons including a BSF jawan dead on Friday night. The clash was initially reported to have erupted from attempts to apprehend smugglers from Bangladesh.
The West Tripura district administration on Saturday ordered a magisterial enquiry into the gruesome clash earlier on Saturday. Asked about developments on the incident, District Magistrate (West) Abhisek Singh said this evening that a magisterial enquiry was ordered into the issue. “Everybody found guilty during the investigation would be brought to book”, he said.
In a major breakthrough to the investigation, intelligence sources inside the BSF today said that Sandeep Kumar was encountered by a gang of smugglers near the pond at South Ramnagar on Friday night when the latter attacked him. He was hit by some crude weapon like a wooden plank or a metal rod behind his head and he lost consciousness, the source said. After Sandeep Kumar lost consciousnes, his body was carried to a nearby hut and then killed by group of smuggelers using sharp objects.
It added that no bullet injuries were found in Sandeep Kumar’s person. Rather multiple cut injuries were found on the body indicating repeated attacks by sharp cutting weapons like chopper, the source said.
Speaking about the issue, a senior BSF official said this evening that the weapon of Late Sandeep Kumar was missing since the incident on Friday night. “No BSF personnel fired on the villagers. Sandeep Kumar’s body was recovered from a distant village hut and not from the spot of the incident”, the official said.
The report was partially confirmed by Inspector General of Police Nepal Das later today. “Several injury marks were found on Kumar’s body”, he said. However, the official maintained that it was not clear how the BSF jawan was killed. “The reasons of death can be ascertained only after the post-mortem examination report arrives”, he said.
The very issue has made a total turnaround in the investigation, indicating possibilities of a cold blooded murder of a BSF jawan in the hands of a smuggling racket instead of people stomping an inebriated para-military trooper dead.
District Magistrate (West) Abhisek Singh said earlier on the day that Sandeep’s body underwent post-mortem examination and was sent to relatives. Body of the other person found dead during the incident – Ismail Miah was cremated observing rites and rituals today.
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