AGITATION

Parents demand hanging of son's killers

 

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 25: Parents of deceased Debabrata Pramanik – Mr Shyamal Pramanik and Mrs Usha Praminik - demanded hanging of the persons who shot dead their son. They expressed their desire for capital punishment at a large gathering that was organised at Tufanganj on Monday on the occasion of 'thana gherao' programme of Trinamul Congress.

 

Debabrata, a student of Tufanganj College, was killed in a clash occurred between armed CPI-M and Trinamul Congress supporters at Nakkatigachh in Tufanganj on 11 June.

 

Trinamul Congress leader Mr Niranjan Dutta said they organised the Monday's programme (daylong blockade of Tufanganj police station) demanding a halt of CPI-M atrocities unleashed on Trinamul Congress supporters especially in Tufanganj sub-division. They also demanded arrest and punishment of all the accused involved with the killing of Debabrata Pramanik. []