north dinajpur the body of hemtabads cpmturnedbjp mla debendra nath roy 59 was found hanging in front of a closed shop 15km from his home on monday morning sparking a war of words between the bjp and the trinamool on how and why he diedthe bengal government ordered a state criminal investigation department inquiry into the unnatural death but the bjp called a 12hour bandh in eight north bengal districts on tuesday demanding a central bureau of investigation probe into the murdersenior state bjp leaders however said they were not certain whether the killing was political and that was why an impartial probe was needed to establish the truth the mlas family including wife chandrima roy too said he was murdered after being picked up from home my uncle left home around 1am on monday with a person who came on a motorcycle and did not return after that nephew kshitish chandra roy said trinamool denied any involvement in the incident pointing to a suicide note he left behind it is unfortunate that he died an unnatural death a probe is on and i hope it will establish the truth there is no point speculating trinamool north dinajpur president kanaia lal agarwal said wondering why roys family did not call up cops if he was really picked up from home at nightthe cpm wanted an investigation by a neutral agency roy was elected mla of hemtabad more than 400 km north of kolkata in 2016 on a cpm ticket but later joined the bjproy went to a neighbours home for dinner on sunday night and returned to his baliadighi home around 10pm before going to sleep and then leaving around 1am with the person who came on a motorcycle locals woke up on monday morning to find roy hanging with one hand tied to the same rope from which his lifeless body was hanginga cid special superintendent reached raiganj and spoke to the autopsy surgeon a few hours after a state police team with sniffer dogs checked the spot forensic experts would visit the spot senior police officials said requesting everyone to wait till the probe was over and not jump to conclusions based on speculationsnorth dinajpur superintendent of police sujit kumar said prima facie it was a case of suicide prima facie evidence indicates it is a suicide we have found a suicide note from his pocket the note points to some people responsible for his suicide but we are keeping all angles open kumar saidbengal governor jagdeep dhankhar however trashed the suicide angle and said the police version was indicative of a coverup he wanted an autopsy videographed by an expert team in accordance with supreme court directivesbengal bjp president dilip ghosh saw a similarity in the pattern of unnatural deaths of bjp workers it was a planned murder he was killed and hung two bjp activists were killed in purulia in a similar fashion and their bodies were hung from poles close to their homes those trying