Tezpur/Ranchi, july 7: A 27-year-old management graduate from the state capital was found dead at his official quarters in Assam’s Lakhimpur district yesterday.
Ajit Ghose, alias Chiku, who may have been murdered by friends, is the second such victim from Jharkhand. Last month, a young city engineer was found dead at an IOCL refinery in Haryana.
According to Assam police, Ajit was a manager with Arunodoy Common Service Centre in Lakhimpur district, around 470km from Guwahati.
The centre helps people get PRCs (permanent residence certificates), death certificates and birth certificates among others. It also offers computer courses. Ajit, who completed his management studies from Orissa, had been working here for two months. His office and quarters are located on land belonging to one Guna Bora.
Lakhimpur superintendent of police David Neitham told The Telegraph that Ghose was hit with the handle of a tube well by two persons known to him while they were drinking on Tuesday night.
“One of his colleagues informed us that he could not be contacted on Wednesday evening. When we broke into his quarters, we found his body and the tube well handle. There were also three glasses and a half-empty bottle of liquor, suggesting that the killers were known to the deceased. They escaped by breaking the window grille,” he said.
Neitham said two of Ajit’s colleagues — Dhruba Chetia and Chandra Prasad Neogi — had been picked up for questioning and they were now looking for two other suspects. Sources said Ajit had made a lot of friends since his arrival in Lakhimpur.
The victim’s body was taken to Guwahati today from where it will be brought to Ranchi. Ajit’s father, Ajay Ghosh, runs a tent house near Cambrian Public School in Kanke. He was the only son of his parents.
On June 3, the capital had been jolted by the shocking news of BIT-Mesra alumnus Anupam Ujjwal Tiru (30) being found dead in Haryana on May 31.
Anupam was a senior electrical engineer with the oil major at its Panipat refinery for three years. Family members had claimed that he was killed for blowing the whistle on the oil mafia.
