Homemaker shot dead

TT; Krishnagar, Aug. 28: A homemaker was shot dead in her sleep in Nadia early today in what police said could be the fallout of an extra-marital affair. According to the police, the assailants broke open the door of Sulata Biswas’s paternal home in Bhangarpara and pumped two bullets into her head.

 Her mother, who lay asleep beside, said she saw four masked youths with torches but couldn’t recognise them. Sulata, 21, had been staying at her paternal home for the past two weeks. The police said she often came here since her husband Sanjit left their Ainshmali home for Abu Dhabi in 2009 to work as a construction labourer. The woman stayed with her in-laws and her brother-in-law.

 The couple didn’t have any children. The police have started a murder case on unknown persons. Although father Jagadish Biswas did not name anybody in the FIR, he hinted at the possible role of her in-laws, who he said often “tortured” her, the officer said. Sulata’s mother Dulurani said she was woken up by her daughter’s screams. Dulurani said she didn’t suspect anybody.

 The police refused to buy Dulurani’s version, saying they suspected an extra-marital affair to be the cause for the murder. An investigating officer said an empty liquor bottle and cigarette butts were found inside Sulata’s room, which “amply suggested there were at least three or four persons who had spent some time there” .