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UK NRI Pratul Deb murder case :

  • In NRI Pratul Deb's Murder, Rahul Roy, Deb’s nephew and son of Assam’s social welfare minister Gautam Roy, one of the suspects under investigation of CBI

Murder: Assam minister under CBI scanner


New Delhi, Nov 7, 2005

A minister in the Congress government in Assam is under CBI scanner in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a London-based NRI businessman.

Highly-placed CBI sources said the agency had so far made eight arrests in the case and was investigating the matter further as the family of the murdered industrialist Protul Deb had filed a complaint with the investigating agency alleging a minister in Tarun Gogoi government was the mastermind.

The sources said the minister's name surfaced after the complaint made by relatives of the deceased and the agency plans to question the minister who is also believed to be a relative of the victim.

Deb, husband of Dolly Deb, elder sister of Assam Social Welfare Minister Gautam Roy, was kidnapped along with his friend Sadhan Nath on March 17, 2004 while they were on their way to Mizoram.

A resident of London, he had unsucessfully contested the last assembly elections as a BJP candidate against his brother-in-law.

His skeletal remains were recovered from Boncherra in Hailakandi near Assam-Mizoram border, which were later brought to AIIMS for postmortem and DNA tests confirmed it was of the NRI businessman. (Agencies)


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