Police have a suspect in Jalpaiguri lawyer murder

JALPAIGURI: Within 24 hours of Jalpaiguri's criminal lawyer Kishore Chanda being butchered to death, DIG C S Lepcha on Monday claimed to have identified the suspected murderer, whose sketch was also ready.
"We have learnt about the motive as well, but will disclose it only after we arrest the accused," said Lepcha.The Bar Council vice-chairman said the suspect was the son of Chanda's client of several years.
Chanda (45) was stabbed to death in his house at Station Para in Jalpaiguri town around 9.30 am on Monday by a suspected murder accused who, after committing the crime, reportedly walked out of his flat in his bloodied clothes and vanished into the crowded streets.
The police have shown the picture of the suspect to Chanda's family members. The police, who raided the suspect's house on Monday night, suspected he had fled to Nepal. Though the cops did not disclose the suspect's name, the West Bengal Bar Council vice-chairman, Goutam Das, claimed he was Jyotish Pramanik, a resident of Gandhi Maidan under the Bhakti Na gar police station in Siliguri.
"The police have zeroed in on Jyotish based on Chananda's law clerk, Bibek De Sarkar, his domestic help, Mamani, his driver and the businessman who lives on the building's ground floor, who had met the suspect. We have found out that Jyotish left his home around 6.30am on Monday and has not returned ever since," said Das. Jyotish's father, Dijen, had been Chanda's client since 2008.