INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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Updated: Jan 14, 2020 07:01 IST
Cooch Behar (West Bengal) [India], Jan 14 (ANI): BJP district secretary Raju Roy has alleged that a party worker died in police
custody here due to torture and demanded a magistrate probe into the incident.The deceased identified as Ram Prasad Barui, was admitted to
Cooch Behar government medical college late on Sunday night, where he died early on Monday morning."Police had arrested a BJP worker on
December 21 in connection with a false case
He had been in jail since
Today, out of nowhere, we found out that he has died
We believe that he was tortured by the police following which he died," Roy said here on Monday.He said that Barui had died in police
custody but the police brought him to the hospital to avoid blame."On behalf of BJP, we demand that the incident is probed by a magistrate
He (Barui) was admitted to the hospital on Sunday night
Around 1.25 am on Monday he was shifted to critical care unit after which he died at around 5 am," Roy said.BJP has on several occasions
accused the TMC-led state government, police and TMC workers of targetting its activists
