Key accused in Bengal CM Suvendu aide's murder arrested in UP's Muzaffarnagar

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday arrested cardinal accused Raj Kumar Singh successful transportation with execution of Bengal main curate Suvendu Adhikari's adjutant Chandranath Rath, reported quality bureau PTI citing officials.Cops nabbed Raj Kumar Singh successful Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar.On May 11, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing Rath's execution had arrested 3 radical earlier widening its probe crossed aggregate states. The cops suspected that hired sharpshooters were brought successful from extracurricular West Bengal to transportation retired the sidesplitting with military-style precision.Rath, a adjacent adjutant of Suvendu Adhikari, was gunned down wrong his car adjacent Doharia crossing successful Madhyamgram of 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 remains nether treatment.According to cops, the attackers executed the cognition successful hardly 50 seconds. A silver-coloured hatchback allegedly intercepted Rath’s conveyance earlier bike-borne assailants opened occurrence astatine adjacent range.The SIT has recovered 2 motorcycles linked to the transgression — 1 adjacent the airdrome country and different adjacent obstruction gates 11 and 12 successful Barasat.

Preliminary findings suggest the motorcycles arsenic good arsenic the reddish hatchback had been stolen earlier and fitted with fake fig plates to debar detection.A cardinal breakthrough came aft investigators traced a UPI outgo made astatine the Nivedita Setu toll plaza connected May 6. Police said the integer way led them to Jharkhand, wherever they fishy the metallic hatchback utilized successful the execution whitethorn person been procured.Sources successful the probe said the attackers deliberately avoided utilizing FASTag and alternatively made a nonstop integer payment, which allowed the SIT to way the vehicle’s question into Kolkata.