The 42-year-old sales executive, Siddhanta Bhattacharya, was allegedly killed following a tiff between his colleagues during a drinking session on the second floor of his double-storeyed house in Haridevpur on the soutehrn fringes of Kolkata, police probing into the Bhattacharya’s murder said.
Early on Friday, the police arrested Debraj Roy and Jiten Lama from Pathar Pratima in South 24-Parganas district following leads provided by Kundan Kumar, who was rounded up from Aurangabad in Bihar earlier, in the case.
Kundan, 20, was among the three who had turned up at Bhattacharya's house sometime on Sunday, investigators said.
The three were a part of Bhattacharya's team in a company that was engaged in selling packed tea leaves. “The exact motive behind the murder has not surfaced as yet. It appears there was a tiff during a drinking session that was organised in the victim’s house on Sunday night,” said a senior officer of Haridevpur police station.
The rear part of Bhattacharya’s head appeared to have been bludgeoned when the police recovered his body on Tuesday following an alert from the neighbours.
There were other injury marks on his body as well and the floor had bloodstains suggesting that the assassins had probably dragged the body from the bed to the washroom.
While in police custody, officers said they would want to know from the three accused why the room was ransacked and whether they had been looking for some specific items, including cash, after allegedly murdering Bhattacharya.
The police have said Bhattacharya used to live alone on the first floor of his house.
“His daughter, who is married and lives on the northern fringes of the city, told us she had learnt about her father expecting a few of his colleagues at his house on Sunday. The body had started decomposing when we recovered it on Tuesday night suggesting that the murder was committed earlier,” the officer said.
Bhattacharya had last spoken to his wife, who lives in Bangalore, on Sunday morning and later in the day his mobile phone was found switched off.
The next day, the wife had requested a few of her neighbours in Haridevpur to find out about her husband leading to the discovery.
