Purulia: Police on Sunday produced the report of the post-mortem on Dulal Kumar and said he had committed suicide even as his family and the BJP contested the claim.

Trinamul said although the BJP was trying to malign the ruling party, the post-mortem showed the truth.

"A team of five doctors conducted the post-mortem at Purulia district hospital. We received the post-mortem report. In the opinion of the doctors, the death was due to asphyxia due to hanging, anti-mortem and suicidal in nature," said Akash Magharia, the superintendent of police, Purulia.

Bengal BJP leaders contested the post-mortem report and said they would move the high court seeking a CBI probe into Dulal's death.

Some local Trinamul leaders this newspaper spoke to said the post-mortem report revealed the truth and exposed the BJP's politics with bodies.

Shortly after Magharia's news conference was broadcast live, Trinamul's secretary general Partha Chatterjee said: "The BJP is left with no political issue now. They are only trying to malign Trinamul, but the post-mortem report states it as a suicide."

BJP national president Amit Shah had condemned the deaths and accused the Mamata Banerjee government of failing to maintain law and order in Bengal.

The politics over the death prompted the state government to bring in Magharia in place of Joy Biswas, who was the SP of Purulia till Saturday.

The Bengal government also ordered a CID probe into the death of Dulal and another BJP worker in Purulia. A CID team visited Balarampur on Sunday.

A senior police officer said the state's response to the deaths was unusual, referring to the involvement of five doctors in Dulal's post-mortem.

"I can't recall an incident in which five doctors were involved in a post-mortem. The decision was taken probably in the wake of the controversy surrounding the death," said the officer, not connected with the case.

According to him, the post-mortem was conducted in record time as the report came on Sunday.

Dulal's family and a section of residents of Dava, where he used to live, refused to accept the suicide theory. "We were a happy family with our three children. He was absolutely normal when I saw him last time on Friday evening. He took food for my father-in-law, who was at our shop in the village," said Monika, Dulal's wife.

Mahabir, the deceased BJP worker's father, echoed Monika. "We have a paddy thrashing shop and we sell rice bran. We don't have any financial problems. Why should he kill himself?" he asked.

When The Telegraph visited the village, several residents said they were shocked. "How can we tell you whether it was a suicide or he was murdered?" said a neighbour, who refused to be named.