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In a horrific incidental successful West Bengal, a 27-year-old real-estate promoter was shot dead successful wide daylight connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026) successful Howrah. The gruesome execution was caught connected CCTV camera, wherever miscreants fired aggregate rounds connected the victim.
The CCTV footage showed 2 men shooting Shafique Khan arsenic helium fell down connected the road. One of the accused was identified arsenic Haroon Khan.
Later successful the day, Opposition parties including the BJP shared videos of the accused riding pillion connected the motorbike of section Trinamool Congress MLA Gautam Chowdhury.
On alleged links to the legislator, the MLA defended himself saying that helium is simply a nationalist typical and thousands of radical conscionable him connected a regular basis. “I americium a nationalist representative. I get to conscionable thousands of radical daily. It is not imaginable to find retired who is simply a transgression and who is clean. A execution has taken spot and the constabulary volition find the culprits,” Mr. Chowdhury said.
The West Bengal BJP enactment said that Nabanna, the State secretariat nether Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, is located successful Howrah successful adjacent proximity to the spot wherever the shootout took place.
Journalist covering incidental attacked
A fewer hours aft the murder, a writer who was covering the incidental was assaulted by a mob. Mayukh Thakur Chakraborty, a journalist working for ABP Ananda, was near profusely bleeding. Mr. Chakraborty had asked the MLA astir videos of the accused surfacing with him appearing successful media.
This is not the archetypal clip that a writer has been assaulted. Few weeks ago, a pistillate TV writer was assaulted by a mob astatine Beldanga successful Murshidabad district. “The 4th pillar of democracy, the media, has erstwhile again been attacked. In West Bengal, it’s not the regularisation of law, but the instrumentality of the rulers that prevails,” Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari said.
