81-Year-Old Dies After Alleged Assault by TMC Councillor Over Illegal Construction

• Tulsi Adhikari, 81, died after an alleged assault by TMC councillor Rabindranath Bhattacharya in North 24 Parganas.
• Adhikari had objected to an alleged illegal construction; his family claims Bhattacharya verbally abused him and later assaulted him.
• Bhattacharya, also a lawyer, was arrested and subsequently suspended from the TMC for six years.
• Adhikari's daughter-in-law alleges the councillor pushed and kicked the elderly man, causing him to collapse.
• TMC MP Partha Bhowmick visited the victim's family, assuring support and promising to stop and demolish the disputed construction.