Agartala, May 10 , 2024 : The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel detained 35-year-old Akash Kar at Pakur railway
station in Jharkhand based on the input of Tripura police on Thursday afternoon for his alleged involvement in the shootout incident
of Durga Prasanna Deb, a BJP leader, in Agartala airport area on April 30. A police team left for Pakur to bring him to the state on transit remand for interrogation. According to the police, Akash was a professional shooter in Ushabazar area of the city and has
been involved in CPWD work negotiations and land deals. He had been on the run since the murder, and a few hours before his detention, the investigating team got the input that Akash was traveling to Kolkata by Kanchenjunga Express. “We shared the information with the RPF, seeking their assistance to arrest Akash, and immediately when the train reached Pakur station at the border of West Bengal and Jharkhand, RPF personnel took him to their custody after prime faces were established,” said a senior police officer here. Being a leader of the ruling BJP, Durga Prasanna ran a club near the airport and got involved in
mafia activities and negotiation business, allegedly with the patronage of a powerful faction of the state BJP. He played a big role in the just concluded LokSabha poll for BJP candidate Biplab Kumar Deb and has allegedly been a perennial source of money for a group of party leaders. There are at least three such groups that run similar types of activities in the locality with the
support of different BJP groups. However, Akash belonged to his anti-group, and during the elections, reportedly, the Durga
Prasanna group got a boost and subsided others, which was claimed to be the main reason for his murder, and the main culprit, Raju Barman, is still on the run, police indicated.
CM Manik Saha constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for the case. Police arrested five people, including a young lady, in connection with the case. And an aged man identified as Babul Datta committed suicide on Thursday following a moral breakdown,
allegedly after police reached out to him based on input that the arrested lady has a relationship with his son.
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