SIx people feature been arrested in link with the off of a 30-year-old labourer from w Bengal who was thrashed to demise in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Wednesday evening, police said.The deceased was identified as Juel Sheikh (30), a daily wage labourer from Bengal’s Murshidabad district, who recently came to Sambalpur along with two others, Akhir Sheikh and Palash Sheikh.Sambalpur additional superintendent of police (Addl SP) Shrimanta Barik said the six suspects have been arrested for the murder but countered reports that Juel was killed over suspicion that he was an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh.This murder was a result of sudden provocation over beedi and not a targeted attack, Barik said.“The murder is related to sudden provocation over asking for beedi by the assailants from the victims who refused to give. It is not regarding targeting anyone,” he said.The police statement came after the TMC mounted a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over reports that one of the injured linked the attack to a campaign against illegal Bangladeshis.Akhir Sheikh, who was with Juel, told reporters that they were at a tea stall when the accused confronted them on Wednesday evening, claimed they were illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and asked them to prove their nationality.Akhir said they produced their identification papers but the situation got out of hand and the accused started assaulting them. The others ran away but the assailants caught hold of Juel and thrashed him. He succumbed to his injuries on the spot.Police said Juel’s body was sent for autopsy while the two injured labourers were being treated in hospital.In Bengal, TMC leaders said that three migrant workers were from Murshidabad district in West Bengal went to Sambalpur on December 20."Once again Bengali speaking migrant workers targeted in BJP-ruled state. In Odisha's Sambalpur one from Murshidabad lynched to death and two others injured after BJP goons attacked them & labelled them as Bangladeshi infiltrators. How many lives of innocent Bengali speaking people the BJP wants? This is nothing but another example on how BJP treats Bengalis. Now the time has come to throw BJP out and common people of Bengal will teach Bangla-Birodhi BJP a lesson democratically in upcoming polls," Samirul Islam, TMC Rajya Sabha MP and chairman of the state migrant workers welfare board, wrote on X.In May this year, around 40 migrant workers from Malda, West Bengal, had to return home after allegedly being attacked in Sambalpur for being “Bengali.”The workers, hailing from Harishchandrapur, Chanchal, and Ratua areas, claimed they were abused and assaulted after revealing their state of origin. “They didn’t ask our religion, only our native language and state,” a victim had claimed at the time.(with inputs from Joydeep in Kolkata)
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