"This is murder. The bus driver has reportedly said that he (Gupta) was forced out of the vehicle and beaten up. There were so many injury marks on his body. The truth can come out only if there is a CBI enquiry," Gupta's elder sister Sumita Sengupta told the media, Friday, after meeting Governor M K Narayanan at the Raj Bhavan.

Flaying Banerjee, who had told reporters in Bangalore Thursday that Gupta's death was an "accident" and "a petty matter" and "small matter", she said: "Our chief minister does not know how to react to such situations Would she have made a similar comment had my brother been a Trinamool Congress worker?"