'Didn't experience joy of having son': Former West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh’s stepson found dead after partying with friends

KOLKATA: Srinjoy Dasgupta, 25, the stepson of former BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his home in New Town on Tuesday. He apparently died hours after partying with a group of friends at the flat.Family members said he had a history of neurological disorder and was under regular medication. A preliminary post-mortem report hinted at acute pancreatic haemorrhage as the possible reason for death.Police said Dasgupta, nicknamed Pritam, was found unconscious and frothing from his mouth by one of the friends. The domestic help, upon seeing his state, called neighbours and his mother, Rinku Majumdar, who rushed him to a local hospital in her car where he was declared dead on arrival.Srinjoy, a software engineer associated with an MNC, lived in a second-floor flat of building number 409 at the Sukhabrishti housing complex in New Town. Prior to her marriage to Ghosh, Majumdar — a Mahila Morcha functionary — also lived in the same flat. After she married Ghosh on April 18, she shifted to Ghosh's bungalow at Ideal Villas in New Town."On Tuesday, their domestic help called me and said Pritam was unconscious. About a year and a half ago, he lost consciousness once. He was under medication for a neurological condition. But I believe he wasn't taking his medication properly for a while," Majumdar told reporters."He didn't say it out loud, but he wanted to stay with me. He wanted to build a house where we all would stay together. I told him the house can come later, but he should start living here first. He was happy that we would be together. But see what has happened," she broke down.Ghosh regretted: "It's my misfortune that I didn't experience the joy of having a son, but now I face the sorrow of losing one. I can't comprehend how everything changed so drastically."At Sukhabrishti apartment, a neighbour, Anamika Roy, said there were a few friends who stayed back at his flat on Monday night. "When I went in, I saw one of his friends rubbing his feet and trying to wake him up. I also tried to wake him, but he was unresponsive. Some time later, his mother came and they took him to a hospital," said Anamika Roy, a neighbour.He was first taken to Ohio Hospital in New Town. A source at the hospital told TOI that in addition to signs of high alcohol consumption, he was frothing from the mouth, which led to the suspicion that there was either a drug overdose or some form of poisoning, and they called the cops. Police shifted the body first to Bidhannagar Subdivisional Hospital and then to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital for the post-mortem.Probing into the case, police said they found some medicines next to Srinjoy's pillow. "We are recording the statement of his friends," said a senior officer. "There were also some scratch marks on his shoulder. We are checking the injuries as well."Srinjoy's father, Raja Dasgupta — Majumdar's former husband — also came to the hospital but refused to speak to reporters.