2 CPM men killed in Murshidabad

BEHRAMPORE: Two CPM supporters were killed allegedly by some Congress-backed goons on Wednesday. The incident occurred around 11 am near Sundar Gopal Dhar Lane under Behrampore police station. Two others were injured in the attack.
Sources said some CPM and DYFI supporters were sitting inside an under-construction flat near the Indraprastha area of Behrampore and discussing something.At that time, some armed goons came and started hurling bombs and firing indiscriminately. While CPM worker Biswanath Chakraborty (38) died on the spot and partyman Goutam Das (39) died at Behrampore New General Hospital, the conditions of Goutam Saha, another CPM supporter, and Apuarba Sharma, a carpenter, are critical.
Sources said Saha, once a Congress worker of Behrampore, was accused of abducting Jhantu Saha, a DYFI leader of Behrampore, in 2001. Though all the other accused in that case surrendered in a Behrampore court, Saha was absconding. In 2006, all the accused got acquitted. As Saha did not surrender, he was declared absconder by police.
A few years back, Saha quit Congress and joined CPM apparently to escape police harassment in the Jhantu abduction case.