'We Don’t Have Any Details': Family Still In Dark Days After Indian Classical Dancer Shot Dead In US

The uncle of the classical dancer, who was shot dead in the US, said on Saturday that he is still in the dark about the details of his nephew’s death, even as four days have passed since he was killed.

Amarnath Ghosh, a Kuchipudi and Bharatnatyam dancer who hailed from West Bengal’s Birbhum district and migrated to the US last year to follow his dancing dreams, was shot dead in a neighbourhood in Missouri state. “We had informed the district police and administration about what we had heard from various sources. But till today we don’t have any details about his death,” Amarnath’s uncle Shyamal Ghosh was quoted as saying by PTI in Suri.

Amarnath, whose parents are no more, used to stay at Subhas Pally locality of Suri town. He is the only child of his parents. Local councillor Suparna Roy also said that they didn’t have any information about the killing. So far, no official of the Birbhum district administration was available for comment on this issue, the report said.

On March 1, Amarnath’s actor friend Devoleena Bhattacharjee first alerted the authorities on social media about Ghosh’s death. “Hope we get the update of this heinous crime as early as possible. If I am not wrong this is 5th or 6th murder of Indian Students in 2 months. We all are worried here & griefing,” Bhattacharjee said in a post on X on Saturday.

She tagged the X handles of the Indian Embassy in the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to look into the matter. “Only child in the family, mother died 3 years back. Father passed away during his childhood. Well the reason, accused details everything are not revealed yet or perhaps no one left in his family to fight for it except his few friends. He was from Kolkata,” she said on Friday.

(With agency inputs)