AGARTALA, Nov 23 (TIWN): Tripura High Court (HC) on Monday has notified 11 January as the last date to publish the Yusuf Commission report on the then state Health Minister Bimal Sinha murder case.The report of the Yusuf Commission was not made public by the state government yet today even after the passage of 15 years from the day the commission had submitted the report before the state home department. Sinha and his younger brother Bidyut Sinha were gunned down by the militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) on March 31, 1998. The Yusuf Commission being constituted by the state Left front government under the pressure of the opposition party had submitted the report on Bimal Sinha murder case during the year 2000, but the government had so far failed to publish the report. The Yusuf Commission report has not been released yet today furnishing suspicious causes by the state govt. here. The CPI-M and its Left front govt. had washed their hand from the murder incident case because they too were involved in the brutal murder of Bimal Sinha. Senior advocate and rights activist Kalyani Roy had recently filed a PIL on the issue which was heard by a Tripura High Court division bench to publish report by January 11.

Tripura government is in a fix over the high court order on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking early publication of the judicial inquiry commission's report on the assassinations of former health minister of the Left Front government Bimal Sinha and his younger brother Bidyut on March 31, 1998.The report of the commission, headed by retired justice of Calcutta High Court K.M. Yusuf, was submitted to the state government on January 31, 2000, but it has not yet been released or tabled in the Assembly as required by Clause-3 of Judicial Inquiry Commission Act.

It is alleged that successive Left Front governments of wilfully suppressing the report "which contains inconvenient details of the CPM's underhand nexus with the militants".