The CBI on Monday night arrested Priyanka Chowdhury, former daughter-in-law of ex-Mohun Bahan club official Balaram Chowdhury, in connection with the murder of a 27-year-old IT professional in 2011.
Junior Mirdha was found dead with a bullet lodged inside his head along the Belgharia Expressway in July 2011. Priyanka was produced in a court in Barrackpore on Tuesday and remanded in CBI custody for seven days. The CBI had taken over the probe into the incident in 2019 following Calcutta High Court’s order.
Mirdha’s father Samaresh Mirdha had moved the high court expressing dissatisfaction over the state CID probe and sought an investigation by the CBI, which the court accepted.
Mirdha, who was allegedly into a relationship with Priyanka, was found dead along the Belgharia Expressway. Initially, police believed he was a victim of a road accident. It was only after the post-mortem revealed the presence of a bullet in the head that a murder case was registered.
The state CID had started the investigation but failed to make any headway. In 2019, the CBI was handed over the case.
Sources said the CBI found during the investigation that the victim and Priyanka had exchanged multiple phone calls on the night of the incident. “There were CCTV images that showed Junior riding his bike with a woman on the pillion,” said a CBI officer.
It was rumoured that Mirdha was eliminated by professional killers.