Monday, 01 December 2025

Com Shibashankar Pal, a young SFI activist of Hoogly district in West Bengal, was brutally murdered on 4th February, 1985 by Chhatra Parishad (I) and Youth Congress (I) activists. Shibashankar Pal was kidnapped and brutally hacked to death, after which his body was buried by his assailants. Shibashankar was a student of Arts in Class XII of Megra-Bagoti Shri Shopal Banerji College. He had been chosen by the SFI to contest the college elections. He was to have filed in his nomination on 5th, but Congress (I) hoodlums ensured that his was not to be. When Shibshankar did not come to college on 5th February, a search was conducted with the help of the police. Finally on 8th February his body was found buried in a field and in a mutilated condition.