Kolkata: Canteen Worker Found Dead Inside West Bengal Assembly, Police Probe Under Way

The body of Umesh Chandra Das, a temporary canteen worker employed at the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for about 15 years, was recovered from a toilet inside the high-security premises in Kolkata on Monday morning, police said. He was rushed to hospital and declared dead; the body has been sent for post-mortem and Hare Street police, with detectives from the Homicide Department, are investigating, examining CCTV footage and questioning colleagues.

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The body of a canteen worker was recovered from a toilet inside the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in Kolkata on Monday morning, prompting an investigation, IANS reported. The deceased was identified as Umesh Chandra Das, a temporary employee who had been working at the Assembly for the past 15 years, police said.

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According to police and Assembly sources cited by IANS, Das was found unconscious inside a toilet by fellow workers on Monday morning. They alerted the Assembly authorities and security personnel, following which Hare Street police station was informed. A police team reached the Assembly, and Das was taken out and rushed to hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

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Ei Samay reported that Das was found lying unconscious on the washroom floor at around 9.10 a.m. in the Assembly's canteen department, that he was employed through a contractor and originally from Tiljala, and that the incident was reported to Assembly Speaker Rathindranath Basu. It said a case was registered at Hare Street Police Station.

Source: Ei Samay

Additional Commissioner of Kolkata Police (Detective Department) Kunal Agarwal said the circumstances surrounding Das's death were being investigated, IANS reported, adding that detectives from the Homicide Department had arrived and an investigation had started.

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Ei Samay, citing police sources, said no visible injury marks were found on the body during the initial examination and investigators had not found any immediate indication of foul play. A team from the Detective Department's Homicide Section of Kolkata Police also visited the Assembly premises as part of the investigation, it reported.

Source: Ei Samay

Police have sent the body for post-mortem examination and the exact cause of death is expected to be established after the report is received. Investigators are examining CCTV footage from the Assembly premises and questioning Das's colleagues, IANS reported, and further details are awaited.

Source: IANS via The Freedom Press

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