SURI: The body of 28-year-old Brishti Mukherjee, a distant niece of former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, was recovered from her father’s residence in Rampurhat’s Nischintapur on Tuesday.She was found hanging from a ceiling fan with a white dhoti tied around her neck at the house in Kusumba village. Brishti was the daughter of Nihar Ranjan Mukherjee, Mamata’s maternal cousin and a former Trinamool block president of Rampurhat-1.Family members said Brishti, mother of a 12-year-old child, had been residing at her father’s house for two years. They said she was battling depression and was under treatment for several years.According to relatives, Brishti was experiencing personal and professional stress, including ongoing divorce proceedings.Brishti worked as a non-teaching Group-C staffer at Bolpur High School until her appointment was cancelled in March 2023 following a Calcutta high court order regarding irregularities in the SSC recruitment process.Family sources said she had submitted her resignation prior to the official termination order.Birbhum SP Vidit Raj Bhundesh said police had registered a case of unnatural death and started a preliminary investigation.Brishti’s family members are being questioned, police said. Investigators suspect Brishti died by suicide due to personal distress, though senior officers said any conclusion regarding the exact cause of death would depend on the postmortem report.
