Guwahati, June 18: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday wrote a letter to West Bengal chief minister Mamta Banerjee seeking CBI inquiry in the death of IIT-Kharagpur student Faizan Ahmed.

Faizan, a third-year mechanical engineering student, was found dead in his hostel room on October 14, 2022. His parents, suspected foul play, demanded an investigation.

Following the second postmortem report, submitted by the A K Gupta to Calcutta High Court recently where it was found that Faizan Ahmed was murdered because gunshot and stab wound from his neck.

Assam CM’s request comes two days after the second postmortem report revealed that he was hit by some blunt object and gunshot and stab wound found during the autospy.

“It is now reported that, as directed by the Hon’ble Calcutta High Court, a second autopsy was carried out by exhuming Late Faizan Ahmed’s body. According to the second forensic report, there was a gunshot wound on the upper left side of Late Faizan Ahmed’s neck and a stab wound on the right side of his neck,” Sarma wrote in his letter to Mamta Banerjee on Monday.

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The letter further added, “In view of the shocking findings of the latest forensic report, it is imperative that the perpetrators of the horrific crime as well as any other person involved in concealing the crime, are brought to book, thereby ensuring justice to the deceased and closure to the grief stricken parents. I, therefore, request you to kindly hand over the case to the CBI for a transparent and fair investigation of the crime.”

“His parents, on seeing the body of the deceased, observed injury marks on his body and they filed a report with the local Police in Kharagpur requesting the Superintendent of Police, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal and the Inspector-in- Charge of Kharagpur (Town) Police Station for an investigation into the unnatural death of their son,” the letter stated.

It furter added, “The sudden mysterious death of the bright young man has evoked a deep sense of grief in Assam and on behalf of the parents, I request your kind intervention so that a thorough investigation is carried out into the circumstances surrounding the death of Late Faizan Ahmed.”

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