AGARTALA, August 2 (TIWN): The Tripura High court yet again postponed the hearing of Ganadoot triple murder case accused Sushil Chowdhury’s bail plea and is scheduled to hear the case again on August 27 this year. The Public Prosecutor (PP) of the case had kicked off his argument on Saturday just after the defence lawyer Pijush Kanti Biswas finished his argument. The PP would continue his argument following which the court is scheduled to hear the Sushil’s bail plea again on August 27 and August 28 next.

The HC was supposed to hear the bail plea final on Saturday but the PP could not finish his argument to the case.

The HC under the division bench of Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Subhashish Talapatra on Saturday sat for the final hearing on the bail plea of mastermind Sushil Chowdhury who was earlier sentenced to life term imprisonment by the lower court for his involvement in the murder case of at least three staffs at Ganadoot daily local office.

Chowdhury’s lawyer Pijush Kanti Biswas stated the court that there are several loopholes in the police investigations and glaring anomalies in the recorded statements of 22 of 42 witness claimed on Friday that the statement of prime witness of the case Nyoti Ghosh should be verified.

CJ Deepak Gupta earlier hearing the plea of alleged mastermind Sushil Chowdhury had also pointed out that the police had made no effort to conduct healthy investigation.

The West Tripura Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court had sentenced mastermind Sushil Choewdhury to life term imprisonment on July 17 previous year. Later challenging the verdict of the lower court Chowdhury had knocked the door of High Court and sought bail plea. The court had also slapped a fine of Rs. 60, 000 on Sushil Chowdhury.

“This is one of the rarest-of-the-rare cases. Choudhury was the main architect of the killing of three people and it was a pre-planned and tactful murder,” Judge Kripankar Chakraborty said in his 434-page judgment.

Three employees of 'Danik Ganadoot', a vernacular daily were killed inside the newspaper office premises at Palace Compound in the heart of the city on May 19, 2013 sending shock waves across the entire state.