Owners and salesman of a liquor store have been arrested for selling alcohol to minors.
Four days after 17-year-old teen, Aabesh Dasgupta was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a posh South Kolkata apartment’s parking lot during a birthday bash, Kolkata Police made its first arrest on Wednesday.
As many as three persons of a wine shop were arrested for selling liquor to minor children. The three arrested have been identified as two partners of the wine shop – Rajesh Saha and Soumya Jyoti Saha, and the salesman, Sudhangshu Dutta.
This wine shop is located on Rifle Road, close to the upscale South Kolkata residential complex, 6 Sunny Park, where the 16 children had gone for a birthday bash of the daughter of renowned author Amit Chaudhuri. Sources in the Detective Department reveal that these children were seen procuring liquor from this wine shop in CCTV footage. These minor children had procured liquor from this wine shop and later joined others for the birthday bash.
“Acting on source information, we have arrested three people involved in selling liquor to minor. The three involves the partners of the store and one salesman,” said Vishal Garg, Joint Commissioner of Kolkata Police (Crime).
However, the mother of the deceased, Rimjhim Dasgupta alleged that the Kolkata Police were trying to divert the investigation by not arresting the main accused.
“My son was murdered. He was left to die by his friends. It cannot be an accident. It’s been four days, but nothing has progressed in the investigation. By arresting these wine shop owners, my son will not get justice. The main accused are roaming freely, they should be put behind the bars,” said Dasgupta.
Police officials probing the death of Aabesh Dasgupta after being allegedly hit by a broken alcohol bottle, have seized mobile phones of his friends, present at the party where the incident happened, to check messages exchanged among them on social media. The cyber section of the Kolkata Police will conduct an examination of the mobiles to examine messages exchanged among those friends on Whatsapp, Snapchat and Facebook before and after the death of the 17-year-old on Saturday, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
It was learnt that out of the 15 persons present at the party, a few have "deleted" some of their messages as well as their posts on social media, he said. "Our Cyber crime section is working on retrieving those deleted messages using some specific software. These posts can be crucial to give us an idea of what was going on after the death of Aabesh," the officer said. Meanwhile, Kolkata Police sleuths have called some of Aabesh's "friends" again today for another round of grilling.
Seven "friends" and writer Amit Chaudhuri and his daughter were questioned in connection with the matter on Tuesday. Police also visited a south Kolkata club, where the birthday of Amit Chaudhuri's daughter was celebrated on Saturday and spoke to the officials there.
CCTV footages of the club were also seized for further investigation, another officer confirmed. Guests at the birthday party of Chaudhuri's daughter, all teenagers, had gathered at the club before going to the author's apartment complex in upscale Ballygunge where Aabesh died. Aabesh, a class XI student, died of wounds inflicted by glass shards and the police registered a murder case against "unknown persons" on the basis of his mother's statement.
With PTI inputs
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