BJP supporter's body found hanging inside Saokat Molla's brother's brick kiln

A wave of intense political tension swept through the Jibantala police station area in South 24 Parganas on Monday morning following the discovery of a hanging body inside a local brick kiln. The deceased, identified as Dudhkumar Sardar, was a resident of the Harinda area and was widely recognized in the locality as an active and dedicated worker for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The gruesome discovery was made by daily laborers arriving for work in the Poyna area of Deuli Gram Panchayat, sparking immediate panic and chaos across the neighborhood.

According to distraught family members, Dudhkumar had left his residence on Sunday night after receiving a call but failed to return home. On Monday morning, his body was found suspended from the ceiling inside a staff room within the brick kiln premises. Relatives have strongly rejected the possibility of suicide, explicitly alleging that the political activist was cold-bloodedly murdered elsewhere and subsequently hanged in the room to make it look like a self-inflicted act. Local residents immediately notified the police, who arrived promptly to recover the body and send it for a mandatory autopsy.

The incident has taken a massive political turn due to the ownership of the commercial property where the body was found. The brick kiln is reportedly owned by Shahjahan Mollah, who is the biological brother of powerful Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman Saokat Molla. Saokat Molla, a former MLA from Canning East and the recently defeated TMC candidate from the volatile Bhangar constituency in the 2026 assembly elections, wields considerable influence in the district. The recovery of an opposition worker's body on a property directly linked to a top TMC leader's family has intensified suspicions of a political vendetta.