The 31-year-old niece of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was discovered useless at her residence in West Bengal’s Birbhum on Tuesday (September 1, 2026).
Police stated she was the daughter of considered one of Ms. Banerjee’s maternal cousins, who was additionally an area Trinamool Congress chief in Birbhum’s Kusumba village beneath the Rampurhat police station.
In accordance with the police, the incident happened at midday when her physique was found by members of the family on the second flooring of her home. Nonetheless, no observe has but been discovered from her belongings.
Rampurhat police inspector Santanu Adhikary stated her members of the family acknowledged that she had been affected by extreme melancholy for the previous couple of years. She was present process psychiatric remedy and drugs usually. She obtained married in 2012. The sufferer was in all probability confused because of the ongoing divorce case, he stated.
She had been working on the Bolpur Authorities Excessive Faculty as a Group-C employees. However she misplaced her job in March 2023 after the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom terminated the providers of a number of staff over alleged irregularities within the West Bengal Faculty Service Fee examination in 2016. Later, the Supreme Courtroom additionally cancelled your complete panel of 2016 SSC examination, resulting in the lack of jobs of practically 26,000 candidates.
“Her members of the family and family are being questioned. An preliminary unnatural dying report has been lodged. The physique has been despatched for post-mortem,” stated Mr. Adhikary.
Revealed – September 01, 2026 04:54 pm IST
