AGARTALA, April 30 (TIWN): The additional session court, west Tripura on Saturday sharp at 3.30 pm sentenced the 12 persons found guilty into the murder case of former MLA parimal saha to life term imprisonment under section 302/120(b) of IPC. A pall of gloom descended over the family members of all the convicted criminals who were awarded with life term imprisonment due to their involvement in the murder case former MLA Parimal Saha.The 12 victims identified as Shasti Chkraborty, Uttam saha, Mrinal sengupta, Pradul Sengupta, Bijay Kumar das, kajal Roy, Abhoy kanti Bhusan, Chinmoy Ghosh, Hiranmoy ghosh, sukhendu Bikash Das and sajal kumar Sarkar are awarded with life term imprisonment on Saturday. However the other five identified as Arun Kumar Saha, chand Miah, tapan Kumar Das, satya Ranjan Das and Uttam kumar saha were acquitted the previous day.After hearing the sentence, members of the convict’s family broke into tears in the premises of the court.After 33 years of wait, Former Congress MLA Parimal Saha's family gets justice at last as Tripura High Court announced verdict in this long pending case. Additional district and session court on Friday announced 12 as guilty into the murder case and 5 acquitted among the entire 17 accused of the case due to lack of direct evidence against the accused.

However, after swinging for at least 33 years finally the case came to an end on Saturday and 12 were awarded with life term imprisonment into the murder case and 5 were set free among the entire 17 accused of the case.

Following the orders from the High court the case was given proper attention as the HC recently ordered the additional district and session court to wrap up the Parimal Saha murder case hearing along with judgement by April 30. It is to be mentioned here that lower court has agreed to treat the copy of certified post-mortem report of Parimal Saha as evidence into the case. Earlier as a part of the hearing of the case, the accused were interrogated in the court under section 313. Former Judge Narayan Chandra Das, Dr.Nitya Ranjan Datta, Dr.Rajat Bhattacharjee, and Soma Ghosh have recorded their statement into the sensational Parimal Saha murder case.

It is to be mentioned here that Congress MLA Parimal Saha was brutally killed by unidentified assailants in April 1983 at Bishalgarh of West Tripura during block advisory committee election. The ruling Left Front, led by Nripen Chakraborty, was in power that time.