A 31-year-old lady, who was the niece of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was discovered lifeless at her residence in West Bengal’s Birbhum on Tuesday (September 1, 2026).
Police mentioned that she was the daughter of one in every of Ms. Banerjee’s maternal cousins who was additionally an area Trinamool Congress chief in Birbhum’s Kusumba village beneath Rampurhat Police Station. On March 2023, she was additionally amongst 842 candidates of 2016 West Faculty Service Fee panel whose jobs had been scrapped as per a direction by the Calcutta High Court.
In keeping with the police, the incident befell at midday when her physique was found by relations on the second flooring of her home. Nonetheless, no notice has but been discovered from her belongings.
“Prima facie, her relations acknowledged that she had been affected by extreme melancholy for the previous couple of years. She was additionally present process psychiatric remedy and medicine commonly. She bought married in 2012. The sufferer was most likely beneath stress owing to the continuing divorce case,” mentioned Santanu Adhikary, the inspector of Rampurhat Police Station.
The sufferer was among the many 842 candidates who had been terminated from their jobs within the State-run colleges on March 11, 2023. The transfer got here a day after the Calcutta Excessive Court docket directed the West Bengal Faculty Service Fee to cancel the appointments of all Group C workers who had secured jobs by unfair means, together with manipulation of OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) sheets. These 842 included many extra with ties to the then-ruling get together, Trinamool Congress, and in addition the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering.
The sufferer ranked 608 in 2016 State Degree Choice Check (SLST) performed by SSC and was used to work at Bolpur Authorities Excessive Faculty as non-teaching workers.
To make certain, all the 2016 panel of SSC was later scrapped by the Calcutta Excessive Court docket on April 22, 2024, in view of a large-level irregularities and favouritism in change for cash to safe the roles. Practically 26,000 individuals misplaced their jobs after this verdict, who moved the Supreme Court docket. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court docket additional upheld the decision on April 3, 2025.
“Her relations and relations are being questioned. An preliminary unnatural dying report has been lodged. The physique has been despatched for an post-mortem,” mentioned Mr. Adhikary.
Printed – September 01, 2026 04:54 pm IST
