Two weeks have passed gold businessman Shanti Lal Baid was found murdered in a city guesthouse close to his Lee Road residence in south-central Kolkata, Kolkata police have yet to arrest the killer.
The family conducted his shradh ceremony at their ancestral home in Rajasthan on Sunday, said a member of the Baid family.
Baid, 63, was kidnapped and killed while his killer had collected the ransom of Rs 25 lakh and managed to slip out of the grip of police who were present at the spot.
“What is sad is the fact that the ransom was paid in the presence of the cops. I wish the killer was arrested right on the spot,” one of the family members told Metro.
Churu Nagarik Parishad, of which Baid was an executive member, held a condolence meeting and paid their homage to Baid on Monday.
S.K. Sharma, former Sheriff of Kolkata who presided over the meeting, expressed anguish over such heinous crime in Kolkata.
Narayan Jain, former president of the Parishad and former class fellow of Baid, said he “hoped that Kolkata police will succeed in their efforts to catch hold of the culprit”.
Several other members of the Parishad paid their homage to Baid.
