According to Kolkata Police Joint Commissioner (Crime) Visal Garg, the death of Abesh Dasgupta at eminent author Amit Chaudhuri’s apartment was an accident.
Going by the CCTV footage at the Sunny Park complex, circumstantial evidences and statements of several witnesses (including those present at the birthday celebration), security guards and other witnesses, sleuths were of the opinion that there was no “conspiracy” behind Abesh’s death.Visal Garg
CCTV footage of the place showed people were consuming liquor and sitting in a scattered manner at the lawn of the complex. Footage also showed Abesh holding a bottle in his left hand and walking in an unbalanced manner on the ramp while coming out of the parking lot.
A grievously injured Abesh, a Class 12 student, was found in a pool of blood in the ground floor car park of the apartment complex in South Kolkata’s Ballygunge on Saturday, 23 July.
He was later declared brought dead at a hospital. The blood-soaked neck of a broken bottle was found at the spot.
While the police on Saturday registered a case of unnatural death, a murder case was initiated on Sunday following a complaint by the Dasgupta family.
There was no footage for around 20 seconds from this place. After that, footage showed Abesh getting up with blood all over his body... after that his friends came running towards him. While a few started pumping his chest, others tried to wrap his shirt around the wound to stop the bleeding.Visal Garg
Abesh’s mother, Rimjhim Dasgupta, did not agree with the reports.
(With inputs from PTI)
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