Editor arrested for triple murder

Three persons manager Ranjit Choudhury,proof reader Sujit Bhattacharjee and driver Balaram Ghosh were stabbed to death one after the other by two masked men who came on a motorcycle in broad daylight in the office of Dainik Ganadoot in the Palace Compound locality of Agartala on May 19.

Sushil Choudhury is understood to have been taken into custody on the basis of statements by Niyoti Ghosh,wife of deceased driver Balaram Ghosh,who was arrested on May 31. Balaram incidentally lived with his wife and daughter within the premises of the newspaper office.

Although the police refused to give details of the editors involvement in the triple murder,sources in the police did not rule out the possibility of an illicit relationship as the reason behind the murders.

Interestingly,Choudhury,who was present in his room in the office when the murders took place,had not only denied having seen anything,but even announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh to anybody giving clues leading to arrest of the culprits.