KOLKATA: Hours after a wanted criminal from Hooghly — Abdul Hussein alias Sentia — was found dead inside a posh condominium in Paikpara, local cops arrested a Kolkata Police constable, along with two others, for being allegedly involved in the molestation and hurt incident that reportedly resulted in Hussein falling from the third floor of a building in the complex while trying to flee. Cops from Chitpore police station had reached the spot in response to an SOS received from the complex.
The arrests were made based on the complaint lodged by two women who had been reportedly hired for the night and witnessed the entire incident.
The accused cop was identified as Sk Ijaz Ahmed posted with the 2nd Battalion. Investigation revealed that Sentia posed as a private guard of the husband (also a politician) of an influential woman politician from Malda’s Ratua. Two others arrested were identified as Jakit Sk alias Sk Jakit and Md Raja, driver and cook of the politician.
According to police sources, the politician, presently in Ajmer, is likely to be questioned on his links with Sentia who had six cases, including murder and extortion, pending against him in Hooghly and North 24 Parganas. He was also involved in a case in the politically sensitive Titagarh-Bhatpara area.
“We have arrested the accused and charged them under IPC sections pertaining to criminal conspiracy, wrongful restraint, extortion, hurt using dangerous weapons, molestation and outraging the modesty of a woman,” said an IPS officer at Lalbazar, adding that all the three were taken into custody.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that Sentia, Jakit and Raja were joined by Ahmed at the residence of the politician on Saturday morning. The two women joined them in the evening. The victim Sentia got into an altercation and started fighting with the others present there. Both Raja and Jakit got injured and a woman cut her forehead and began bleeding profusely.
As she cried for help, flat residents gathered and someone informed local police about the matter. Sentia broke an alcohol bottle and attacked the cook, nicknamed Motu, who was bleeding from his hands. As Sentia realised that he might get caught by the police, he tried to flee, tied up two curtains and jumped off the third floor of the complex. “He was under the influence of alcohol and lost his balance and fell about 37-feet below. He was declared brought dead at the hospital,” said a police officer.