Tripura Congress MLA Murder: Family Gets Justice After 36 Long Years

Agartala, 1 November:

Former Congress MLA Parimal Saha’s family has been finally served with justice after 36 long years of wait. On Friday, the Tripura High Court bench, led by Chief Justice Sanjoy Karol and Justice Arindam Loadh, pronounced the verdict of the 36-year-old murder case.

The Additional district and session court has announced twelve people as guilty in the murder case. Five among the surviving 17 accused were acquitted in the murder case of the former Congress MLA. The accused were sentenced to life imprisonment.

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The 12 guilty persons have appealed before the High Court challenging the District court's judgment. A writ petition has been filed against the District court’s order of relieving the five accused.

The 12 guilty persons who have been pronounced guilty are Sasthi Chakraborty (59), Uttam Saha (60), Mrinal Sengupta (62), Pradul Sengupta (61), Bijay Kumar Das (61), Kajal Roy (53), Abhaykanti Bhusan (64), Chinmay Ghosh (60), Hiranmoy Ghosh (56), Shukhendu Bikash Das (61), Babul Das (59) and Sajal Kumar Sarkar (59).

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It may be mentioned here that Saha was murdered in 1983 and after investigation, a chargesheet was filed against as many as 25 persons. The trial went on for a long time, during which, eight accused died.

The murder case was delayed for the past years. Former Chief Justice Deepak Gupta had ordered to complete the case on time. The first judgement came in 2016 from the additional and session judge court, after 33 years later of that Congress MLA murder.

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