Kolkata, April 24 || Tension erupted in Salanpur in the West Burdwan district of West Bengal after the body of a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawan was found in suspicious circumstances.
The jawan, identified as Sunil Kumar Paswan, was shot dead on Wednesday night.
A resident of Mihijam in neighbouring Jharkhand, Paswan was posted at Bokaro. He owned land at Salanpur, and recently, some construction work started there.
The body of the jawan was recovered late Wednesday night from the land owned by him. The police recovered several liquor bottles and glasses at the spot where the body was found.
The investigating officials suspect that a group of people, including the deceased individual, were consuming alcohol at the spot. The cops are not ruling out the possibility of a quarrel breaking out in an intoxicated state, following which bullets were fired and Paswan was killed.
Paswan's local friend, Pankaj Sharma, informed the cops and the media persons that the deceased CISF jawan, a head constable by rank, was on leave and he came to Salanpur to review the progress of construction on the land owned by him.