A police complaint was filed against the forest department on Monday for the death of a tea garden resident in a firing on Saturday.

Shambhuman Munda was killed when foresters opened fire on an alleged gang of timber smugglers in Diana forest in Jalpaiguri district.

However, residents of Bamandanga-Tondu tea estate where Munda lived said he had entered the forest in search of cattle which hadn't returned after grazing.

On Monday, Munda's wife Anita filed a complaint against the Diana forest range at the Nagrakata police station. She was accompanied by Trinamool Congress leaders who demonstrated at the police station in protest against the forest firing.

Asesh Pal, the Diana forest range officer, was brief in his reaction. “We have come to know that a complaint was filed. The truth will be revealed if police investigate the case,” he said.

RKM case

Five persons, who had been arrested in connection with the attack on Sewak House, a property of Ramakrishna Mission in Siliguri, were sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a court in Jalpaiguri on Monday. Earlier, they had been sent to police custody for five days.