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Senior BJP person Suvendu Adhikari connected Thursday (May 7, 2026) expressed assurance that constabulary would lick the murder of his enforcement adjunct Chandranath Rath, saying investigators were "heading successful the close direction".
Mr. Adhikari reached Barasat Hospital, wherever Mr. Rath’s post-mortem introspection was being conducted.
"Police are working. I spoke with the DGP; they person leads, and immoderate radical person been rounded up. I americium assured the constabulary volition beryllium capable to apprehension the assailants. CID, forensic and SIT are successful action, and constabulary are heading successful the close direction," Mr. Adhikari told reporters extracurricular the Hospital.
He claimed that the constabulary were susceptible of solving cases but alleged that "they were not allowed" to bash truthful earlier, successful an evident excavation astatine the TMC government.
When asked astir the TMC's request for a CBI enquiry into the killing, Mr. Adhikari said, "There is nary relevance of TMC now. Police volition beryllium capable to lick this." Senior BJP leaders Samik Bhattacharya and Rahul Sinha had besides reached the Hospital.
Mr. Rath was changeable dormant by bike-borne assailants who intercepted his conveyance adjacent Doltala successful Madhyamgram astir 10.30 p.m. connected Wednesday (May 6, 2026), forced it to halt and opened occurrence astatine point-blank scope earlier fleeing, according to police.
