Kolkata, Aug. 10 -- West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday met the family members of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker who died in police custody at Halisahar in North 24 Parganas and promised a job and an ex-gratia payment of Rs.10 lakh for the victim's wife.

This comes a day after former chief minister Mamata Banerjee faced massive protests when she went to meet the victim's family. The victim's wife, Jenny Sharma Keot, a former TMC councilor of Kanchrapara municipality, refused to meet Banerjee.

"It is a fact that the person died in police custody even though the reason behind his death and whether he was tortured can be ascertained only after the autopsy report comes in. But there has been police negligence because ...