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Bimal Sinha murder case: Few days to publish the Yusuf Commission report
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Bimal Sinha murder case: Few days to publish the Yusuf Commission report
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AGARTALA, Feb 13 (TIWN): As the days are coming close, Counting days is left for the release of the much awaited suspense over the Bimal sinha murder case. After HC has notified to public the Yusuf Commission report within 6 weeks, and just few days are left for publishing the Yusuf Commission report. Tripura High Court (HC) has given the last date to publish the yusuf commission report on the then state health minister Bimal Sinha murder case in next 6 weeks but question arise will the state government submit the report or it will once again get delayed by few more months.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. 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.

The 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".

Despite the Commission having submitted the report in 2000, the government didn’t table the report in the Assembly. However, the HC asked the state government o publish the report within the stipulated time.

The state government had constituted the single member -Yusuf Commission with former Calcutta High Court judge – KM Yusuf. The Commission had submitted the report, but the government failed to table the report in the state Legislative Assembly.

 

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