India, Nov. 7 -- A block development officer (BDO) in north Bengal accused of killing a jeweller near Kolkata on October 29 on Friday rejected accusations of his involvement, saying the charges levelled against him by the victim's family were fabricated

Prasanta Burman, the BDO from Jalpaiguri district's Rajganj, said he had always been a officer and would remain so. But the charges against him were cooked up. "It is a conspiracy against me as I am a member of the scheduled caste Rajbangshi community. I will expose the conspirators," Burman told reporters in Jalpaiguri after attending a meeting convened by a visiting team of the Election Commission of India in connection with the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll.

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