A team of Raiganj police district of North Dinajpur on Friday arrested from a Meghalaya motel Sital Roy, a BSF constable and main accused in the firing here this week, which killed a woman.

Sital, his wife and brother-in-law were produced at a court here on Saturday. The court sent them to police custody for 14 days. On September 27, Sital, and some others went to the house of Nikhil Krishna Majumdar, a retired police officer, at Sukanta More. Sital used to be his tenant once, and seemed to have had a grouse. He allegedly shot at all three children of Majumdar, and one of them, a woman, died.

“Preliminary probe suggests the accused had problems with his former landlord and wanted to settle scores. He got into a quarrel with Rupa, Majumdar’s daughter who first came out, prompting her to call her brother and sister who were inside. When they came out, the accused whipped out a gun, fired at them, and fled,” said a police officer.

All three siblings were hit by bullets and Debi Sanyal, one of the two sisters, died. Sujoy Krishna, the brother and also a police officer, and Rupa, are still hospitalised.

“We need to interrogate them to find out the motive behind the attack,” said Sana Akhtar, SP, Raiganj police district.