HOWRAH
: Police on Wednesday found the dismembered body of a debt recovery agent working with a private bank at Howrah’s
Domjur
. The body, with the head, arms and feet missing, was stuffed inside a blue plastic sack and left in a bush near a field.
Police said the killers mutilated his body to prevent its identification. But a tag of a tailor’s shop in Nadia’s Chakdah and statements of his colleagues helped the cops identify the youth as
Partha Chakraborty (30). While his family lives in Chakdah’s Gourpara, he worked for the bank’s branch in Howrah’s Salap.
According to the cops, Chakraborty’s mobile phone was switched off since noon that day. But around 12.40pm, he was seen walking with a woman on the CCTV footage of a local shop. His body was found around two kilometres from the shop. The cops have identified the woman.
Chakraborty’s colleagues at the bank said he had Rs 3.5 lakh that he had collected from the bank’s clients. The money and the mobile phone were missing. Tracking calls on his mobile, cops found that the last person who called Chakraborty was a woman.
Around 4pm on Wednesday, locals in Domjur’s Raghavpur were drawn to a nearby bush where stray dogs were barking. “We saw the dogs were sniffing at a sack soaked in blood. We then informed the local panchayat and Domjur police,” said Amit Bakuli, a local. Cops reached Raghavpur with sniffer dogs, opened the sack and found the body of the youth sans head, hands chopped off from the shoulders and the feet cut off. The head, hands and feet were not found at the spot. The sniffer dogs led sleuths to a road along a nearby field and first ran east and then towards west of where the sack was lying. Sleuths suspect that Chakraborty was dragged along the field, with the marks indicating that he had also put up resistance. There were bloodstains all through the stretch. The road had footprints and two types of shoe marks on both sides. Sleuths suspect three people, two with shoes on and one on barefoot, had dragged the victim.
But police were clueless about his identity till Thursday morning when the bank’s Salap manager and the victim’s junior reached Domjur PS to lodge a missing diary. Branch manager Sanjoy Santra told IC Subir Ray that they were in contact with Chakraborty from Wednesday morning till he visited four customers and collected Rs 3.5 lakh. “He had informed his colleagues that he was on his way to the home of a another customer in
Durgapur
. After that, they lost contact with Chakraborty,” said police. When the IC took the duo to the evidence room, they identified Chakraborty from his garments. Chakraborty lived in a mess at Salap with his junior, who accompanied the manager to Domjur PS.
Chakraborty’s father Pankaj said, “Only someone who harboured immense rage and enmity could have murdered him this way.”