Student leader death: Bengal sets up SIT, family firm on CBI probe demand

While the family members of Anis claimed that they were “offered a job, money and an opportunity to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Nabanna” but they “refused for the time being” — this claim was denied by state panchayat and rural development minister Pulok Roy, who along with TMC’s Uluberia MP Sajda Ahmed, visited the bereaved family on Monday.

Forensic experts arrive at Anis’s house. (Express Photo)

According to the family, Anis was killed on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday after being allegedly thrown off the second floor of his residence by four unidentified persons in Howrah district’s Sarada Dakshin Khan Para village. His father Salem Khan has alleged that one of the accused was “in police uniform” and the others in civil volunteers’ uniform. The police have denied the allegation.

Protest outside Amta police station in Sunday. (Express Photo)

Speaking with The Indian Express at his residence on Monday, Anis’s father Salem Khan said, “A man identifying himself as a representative of CM Mamata Banerjee had visited us on Sunday night, saying the government is ready to provide us with a job and compensation… an offer that I refused…That night, four people visited my home and killed my son. We want the murder accused to be arrested soon. We want justice. I told him categorically that we want a CBI probe under court supervision,” said the grieving father.

Anis’s uncle Jalim Khan, too, claimed that a “government representative” visited the family with an offer. “The same person came again to our home on Monday morning, and then came along with the minister [Pulak Roy] and the MP [Sajda Ahmed]…,” the uncle said .

However, while speaking with The Indian Express later on Monday, Roy denied that the government had made any such offer to the family.