Former CM Mamata Banerjee’s niece found dead at Birbhum residence

The woman was a non-teaching staff in a government school but lost her job when the Calcutta High Court and later the Supreme Court annuled jobs of thousands of teachers and non-teaching staff over alleged irregularities in the appointment process

Brishti Mukherjee's body was found hanging on the first floor of her home in Kusumba village, in West Bengal's Birbhum district.

Bristi Mukherjee, niece of Mamata Banerjee, was found dead at her Birbhum home. The 28-year-old was discovered hanging in her room on Tuesday afternoon. Police are treating the death as a suicide and have sent the body for post-mortem. Mukherjee was reportedly undergoing divorce proceedings and had suffered from dep