CBI arrests fifth accused in Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari aide’s murder case

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Vinay Rai, the 5th accused successful the execution lawsuit of Chandranath Rath, idiosyncratic adjunct to West Bengal main curate Suvendu Adhikari.Rai was arrested from Varanasi successful Uttar Pradesh arsenic the probe into the high-profile sidesplitting widened crossed aggregate states. Investigators are examining the relation of hired shooters and the wider conspiracy down the murder.Chandranath Rath, a adjacent adjutant to Adhikari, was changeable dormant wrong his car adjacent Doharia crossing successful Madhyamgram successful North 24 Parganas territory connected the nighttime of May 6, hardly 170 metres from his residence.

His driver, Buddhadeb Bera, sustained captious injuries successful the onslaught and continues to stay nether treatment.Earlier, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the execution had arrested 4 accused earlier expanding its probe beyond West Bengal. According to investigators, the attackers executed the cognition with “military-style precision” successful little than a minute.Police fishy hired sharpshooters were brought successful from extracurricular the authorities to transportation retired the killing.

Investigators said a silver-coloured hatchback intercepted Rath’s conveyance earlier bike-borne assailants opened occurrence astatine adjacent range.The SIT recovered 2 motorcycles allegedly utilized successful the crime, 1 from the airdrome country and different adjacent obstruction gates 11 and 12 successful Barasat. Preliminary findings suggested some motorcycles and the hatchback utilized successful the onslaught had been stolen earlier and fitted with fake fig plates to debar detection.A breakthrough successful the probe came aft constabulary traced a UPI outgo made astatine the Nivedita Setu toll plaza connected May 6. Officials said the integer way led investigators to Jharkhand, wherever the hatchback suspected to person been utilized successful the execution whitethorn person been procured.TOI Sources associated with the probe said the accused deliberately avoided utilizing FASTag and alternatively made a nonstop integer payment, which helped investigators way the vehicle’s question into Kolkata.