Aabesh Dasgupta was a guest at the birthday party in writer Amit Chaudhuri's Kolkata house.
Highlights
- Aabesh Dasgupta, 17, was murdered after party at Amit Chaudhuri's house
- Police sources say Aabesh was stabbed to death after drunken fight
- Police say they expect to make arrests soon
Two days after a teenager who was part of a birthday party for his daughter was found murdered at the parking lot of his apartment complex, eminent author Amit Chaudhuri has denied that the tragedy was linked to his family or his home.
"Our connection is entirely unfortunate, tangential and wholly unexpected," Mr Chaudhuri, who took the boy to the hospital,
said in a statement on Monday.
"We tried to help a young man none of us knew and feel distressed not to have succeeded in doing this," he said.
Aabesh Dasgupta, 17, was found bleeding at the parking lot of the upscale South Kolkata apartment complex where Mr Chaudhuri lives.
Aabesh had been in the group that had celebrated Mr Chaudhuri's daughter's birthday on Saturday. The police are investigating allegations that he was stabbed with a broken beer bottle by someone in the group, after a fight.
Aabesh Dasgupta's mother called for the guilty to be arrested soon.
Mr Chaudhuri said his daughter and many others in the group did not know Aabesh and no party had been organized at his apartment.
"It was a surprise, and our only condition was that, given the circumstances of mourning for her much-loved grandmother, we would prefer it if they had lunch outside... my daughter and, indeed, most of that group did not know the boy who later died of an injury," said the author, asserting that no alcohol was made available to anyone anywhere in their flat.
The group of friends returned to the building at around 4.30 pm after lunch. Mr Chaudhuri said he was informed by his driver at 6.10 pm that a boy was bleeding downstairs.
He said the group had splintered and he found two of the group attending to the bleeding boy, but the friend who had brought Aabesh to the gathering had "left suddenly" in his car.
"I called an ambulance immediately and then decided not to wait. I put him in my car with the two young people who had been trying to help and told my driver to take him to the emergency ward of a nearby hospital," said Mr Chaudhuri.
Aabesh, a Class 12 student of an elite school, was his mother's only child.