Lover lynched

Krishnagar, Jan. 21: Thirty-year-old Bibhas Barui was beaten to death in Nadia’s Chakdah last night because he defied village elders’ order and met the girl he loved but could not marry.

Police said the girl’s family did not approve of the match and Bibhas and she married separately two years ago. But they started seeing each other again. A village meeting had recently fined Bibhas Rs 5,000, but he declined to pay. Last evening, the girl’s brother-in-law Pranab Roy spotted them together at Chakdah, about 65 km from Calcutta, and pounced on him. Pranab has been arrested. Police are looking for the others who joined him in the lynching.

Teacher raid

Midnapore: Police found landmine containers and Maoist literature in the house of Chhatradhar Mahato, a retired schoolteacher, on Sunday. Mahato, a former teacher of Salboni Primary School in West Midnapore, about 170 km from Calcutta, had been arrested on Thursday for his suspected Naxalite links.

CPM death

Behrampore: A CPM supporter was hacked to death at Narasinghapur on Saturday night. Murshidabad police chief Rahul Srivastav said three miscreants attacked Mainuddin Sheikh, 30, when he stepped out of his house to relieve himself.

Man run over

Calcutta: Mahirul Sheikh, 22, a cloth merchant, was run over by a truck at Nodakhali on the city’s southern fringes on Sunday night. He was riding a motorcycle on his way back home to Metiabruz. The truck was impounded but the driver fled.