Alok's family says that they had searched the spot several times on the previous night but Alok's body was not there. They suggest that he must have been killed elsewhere and his body hanged at the spot to make it look like suicide.
As per a report in Organiser, one Javed Mandal (40) and Bapi Mandal (30) of North 24 Pargana district of West Bengal have been arrested in connection to the matter.
Extremists had chopped TJ Joseph's hands over false allegations of blasphemy in 2010. His college and church had disowned him following the allegations.