South 24 Parganas, West Bengal – July 11: In a shocking incident, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Rezzak Khan, aged 38, was brutally murdered in West Bengal’s Bhangar area on Thursday night. He was reportedly shot multiple times and then hacked to death by unidentified assailants in the Chaltaberia locality while returning home from a party meeting.
Khan, a resident of Maricha, was serving as the TMC area president of Chaltaberia and was a close aide of MLA Saokat Mollah. Police sources stated that the attackers fired three rounds before launching a deadly assault with sharp weapons. His body has been sent for a post-mortem, and an investigation is currently underway.
Following the incident, political tensions escalated as local TMC MLA Saokat Mollah alleged that members of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) were behind the killing. “Under the direction of MLA Naushad Siddiqui, ISF-backed miscreants carried out the murder,” Mollah claimed, demanding immediate action. However, the ISF has strongly denied any involvement in the crime.
Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma visited the crime scene to personally supervise the investigation.
Rezzak Khan was previously associated with TMC leader Arabul Islam but had later shifted allegiance to the Mollah faction within the party.
This murder has once again drawn attention to the rising political violence in West Bengal, particularly in volatile regions like Bhangar.
