KOLKATA: The owner of an iron works firm was found dead with his throat slit early on Saturday. Haridevpur’s Tapan Dey might have died by suicide, police said. The preliminary post-mortem report confirmed the injuries were self-inflicted, said JCP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma.
Dey’s wife, Indrani, teaches at a pre-primary school and his daughter is a student. “Dey quit his job and set up his firm two years ago. But the pandemic hit his business and he could not pay GST of Rs 2 lakh. He had borrowed money,” Sharma said.
When Indrani did not get any call from Dey till 11pm on Friday, she asked her brother to check on him. “ I could see from my window his workshop lights were on. Around 12.15am, my husband, Apurba Hazra, and I went to check and saw the fan and light on at the workshop. We found him blood-spattered in a store room,” said Indrani’s sister-in-law Indrani Hazra. “Cops found severe cuts in his throat. A blood-stained knife lay nearby. The door was shut from inside with a wire,” said Sharma.
