AGARTALA, Jan 20 (TIWN): The much awaited Yusuf Commission report is expected to be made public in the given deadline. Countdown begins for the exposure of hidden conspiracy behind the murder of Bimal sinha. Talking to TIWN correspondent, Minister Tapan Chakraborty said that the Yusuf Commission report will be made public in the court in the given deadline. He further said that as the government will not house any assembly six weeks so the state government is willing to publish the report in front of the high court. He also stated that the report will be positively made public in the given deadline. 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. Bimal 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 High Court has directed Tripura government to table the report of the Commission of Enquiry headed by Justice M Yusuf to enquire over the circumstance leading to the killing of the then health minister Bimal Sinha in 1998 by a group of NLFT militants. The division bench comprised Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Subhasish Talapatra ordered to table the report before the state assembly within six weeks.

However, state government has chosen to table the report in the court.The report of the Yusuf commission has become one of the biggest suspense in Tripura as the state government, despite repeated demand from the opposition, refused to submit the report before the state assembly since it was submitted on 31st January, 2000. Sinha was murdered on March 31, 1998 within few months of the formation of the fourth Left Front government headed by Mr Manik Sarkar.

Sinha was murdered when he went to the bank of the Dhalai River at Abhanga in Kamalpur along with his brother Bidyut Sinha to talk to the NLFT militants reportedly to discuss about the release of his another brother kidnapped by the militants. He did not allow his security staff to accompany him. The killing spread a shock wave in the state. At the same time it also was alleged that Mr Sinha was the victim of his long association with the militants.

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.