Rinku Das and her mother Gayatri flank the Barasat MLA at Writers’ Buildings on Monday. Picture by Sanat Kr. Sinha

Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday handed over a cheque for Rs 2 lakh to the family members of the slain Rajib Das and offered a job to his mother.

Rajib’s sister Rinku and parents Tapan and Gayatri met the chief minister at Writers’ Buildings during the day.

Bhattacharjee had visited Rinku’s house in Barasat on February 16, two days after the murder, and asked her to meet him at Writers’.

“He (Bhattacharjee) said he came to our house because he had been shocked to know what had happened to my brother and me. He promised that all the culprits would be arrested and given exemplary punishment,” Rinku told Metro.

Rinku and her parents — accompanied by Bithika Mandal, the Forward Bloc MLA from Barasat — reached Writers’ around 11am.

The chief minister spent more than an hour talking to them.

“He listened to us patiently and asked about the financial condition of our family. He condemned the incident and gave us a cheque for Rs 2 lakh,” said Tapan.

Subesh Das, the principal secretary to the chief minister, later said Gayatri would be given a job in the panchayat department.

The finance and panchayat departments have given their approvals and the issue will soon be placed before the cabinet.

When asked why Gayatri was offered the job instead of Rinku, the chief minister’s aide said: “The proposal had come from the family.”

Rinku was accosted by three drunk youths on the night of February 14, while she and her brother were returning home on a bicycle. The spot was within 100 metres of the residences of the district magistrate and the superintendent of North 24-Parganas police.

The youths sprinkled liquor on her and stabbed Rajib when he tried to protect his sister.

A constable in front of the district magistrate’s bungalow, who allegedly turned down Rinku’s plea for help, has been suspended.

Police arrested a youth named Chandan Roy, who they claimed was one of the attackers. Rinku could not identify him but told the sleuths that his height and physique matched that of one of the attackers.