Raju Barman, the key accused in the sensational murder of Bharat Ratna Club secretary Durga Prasad Deb alias Vicky, has been brought from Guwahati to Agartala today. The Tripura Police after a three months long search tracked him down and apprehended him yesterday in Assama’s Chhatabari area under Bako police station.
The sensational murder took place on the evening of April 30, when assailants fatally shot Durga Prasad Deb, also known as Vicky, who was the general secretary of the Bharat Ratna Sangha Club Usha Bazar in the capital. The event took place in the Shalbagan area within the Bamutia assembly constituency. Vicky sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was rushed to ILS Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His family has alleged that other club members were directly involved in the incident.
The murder sent the police into tizzy as the victim and accused were all some sort of local level bahubali and were neck deep in negotiation business. The murder was believed to the direct fall out hundreds of crores rupees negotiation business going wrong.
Some osther suspected assailants Biman Das, Prabhakar Ghosh, Debabrata Barman and Sukanta Gupta are still absconding. Police however, recovered the pistol which was believed to have been used in the murder following interrogation of one of the accused.
According to Vicky’s wife, on that fateful evening, he had taken their child to see a doctor. Around 7 pm, she received a call from her husband, who informed her that a person named Biman Das had sent a car for him, and he was on his way home. Subsequently, his phone went offline. Later, news arrived that Vicky had been shot. The victim’s wife directly accused Raju Barman and Biman Das of her husband’s murder, prompting the police to initiate an investigation.
In the ongoing investigation, the Airport police station arrested three individuals: Pradyut Dhar Chowdhury, college student Sushmita Sarkar, and Sunny Saha. Pradyut, the former president of the Bharat Ratna Sangha Club at Usha Bazar, was among those detained. Today, the police apprehended the main suspect, Raju Barman, in connection with the murder case.
