Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday morning expressed shock and anger at what she called the murder in Maharashtra’s Pune of a man from Bengal’s Purulia district. Sukhen Mahato, 24, a resident of Tumrasol village in the Barabazar area of Purulia, was working as a labourer in Pune. After Mamata's claim, Pune rural police said he was killed by two persons with whom he entered into an argument in a drunken state. But instead of going to work, he started roaming in Koregaon in a drunken state," said inspector Dipratan Gaikwad of Shikrapur police station. It is learnt that in the drunken state, he picked up a spat with two persons, he said.

Source: The Telegraph February 12, 2026 05:34 UTC