Kolkata: A contractor of construction materials was murdered and left on the road in Uttar Panchannagram, off EM Bypass, on Friday. The body reportedly lay on the road unattended for a long time till police arrived. But Lalbazar officers declined to comment on it.
Arif Khan, a resident of Joributi Gully under Anandapur PS, had gone to a site in nearby Panchannagram.
He was walking, when he was reportedly accosted by Abbas, who had an old rivalry over contracts. Two others joined. “Abbas and the two attacked him with a chopper and left him with bleeding injuries. CNMC Hospital declared him ‘brought dead’,” said addl CP (I) Murlidhar Sharma.