Siliguri, June 8: Friends of an engineer shot dead in Siliguri have created a Facebook page on which they have appealed to people to come forward if they have information that might help pin the killers or reveal the motive behind the murder.
Police are yet to find any clues related to the death of Sandip Kumar Singh, an engineer with HCC who was gunned down at Salugara on May 22 while on his way home from work.
The page on Facebook, a social networking site, seeks justice for Singh’s family and requests people to give telephone numbers of local contacts in Siliguri and Jalpaiguri so that they can be reached for information. Sandip’s father Devendra Singh has written to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, asking for her intervention in the case.
Dheeraj Pandey, a batch mate of the engineer in the Birla Institute of Technology and based in Delhi, created the “Justice for Sandy: An Appeal to BITians” page on FB.
The page has also been posted on the official page of BITOSA (Birla Institute Of Technology Old Students Association). “Almost three weeks have passed since Sandip has been brutally murdered and yet, the police are clueless,” Dheeraj told The Telegraph over phone from Delhi today.
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| The Facebook page launched by Sandip Kumar Singh’s friends, asking for information that might help police track down the killers |
“The failure of the police so far to solve the case has prompted us to launch the FB campaign. Through the campaign, we seek solidarity from friends, relatives, colleagues and people in common as well as request them to help the police with important information which might lead to a breakthrough.”
“We are also thinking of filing an RTI petition and visiting Jalpaiguri and Siliguri to know where exactly the police investigation stands,” he added.
Till 8pm on Friday, the Facebook page, created on May 27, had drawn 1,065 Likes, 1,272 shares and 85 comments.
Friends monitoring the page said it was not necessary that anyone with information had to write it on the Wall, where messages are posted. “They can call us, or his family members or the police and pass on the information. We have our numbers and emails on the Page. We can also provide telephone numbers which can be called up by those with information,” one of Singh’s friends said.
Singh was posted at Kalijhora—the Teesta Low dam project site around 35km from Siliguri. Assailants on a speeding bike had shot him when he disembarked from the company’s bus on NH31. Local people had taken him to a nursing home, where doctors pronounced him dead.
Singh’s family said they were disappointed with the probe. Father Devendra Kumar Singh has asked Mamata in his letter requesting her to hand over the case to the CID or the CBI.
“We are apprehensive that his death has got to do something with his job,” Devendra Kumar Singh told The Telegraph over phone from Balia, their home in Uttar Pradesh. He is currently posted in Bihar. “When I visited Siliguri on May 9, he had just returned from Mumbai. He told me that he was going through immense pressure and was facing certain problems.”
“It is disappointing that the police could not make any breakthrough so far. We had little options but to seek intervention of the chief minister. Copies of my appeal have been sent to the President, the Prime Minister, the chief minister of Bihar, the governor of Bengal and to some other people,” the father said.
“It is important that those who killed my son should face the court of law. This would then discourage them from committing such heinous crimes. My son was a sincere and honest person who faced such unfortunate consequences,” he added.
The police said the murder case was being investigated with “appropriate” importance. Our officers have met several people, obtained statements and other information. We however, need some more time,” said James Kuzur, the additional superintendent of police of Jalpaiguri(TT)
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