AGARTALA, August 17 (TIWN): Tripura High Court prepares to hear the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a state social activist Kalyani Roy also an advocate over government’s failure towards publishing the Yusuf Commission report on the then state health minister Bimal Sinha murder case. The report of the Yusuf commission was not made public by the state government though he was killed by the extremists on March 31, 1998. Sinha and his younger brother Bidyut Sinha were gunned down by the militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT). Talking to TIWN in regard of the HC hearing Roy said, “As a social activist and as an income tax payee I had filed PIL with the HC earlier following which the HC would hear the case for the first time on August 17.” Court under the division bench of Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Subhashish Talapatra would hear the case on the mentioned day. The Yusuf commission being constituted by the state Left front government under the pressure of the opposition party had submitted the report on Bimal Sinha murder case during the year 2000, but the government had so far failed to publish the report.

“The state government had not yet submitted the report with the state legislative assembly,” said Roy.

''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,” congress alleged earlier.

MLA Ratan Lal Nath accusing the Left front government said, ''Within a fortnight of assuming power in 1998 by, Manik Sarkar, Bimal Sinha was murdered and entire process of investigation and trial were manipulated at the behest of CPI-M party,'' Nath added.

The process of investigation and related activities of the state government confirmed that Bimal Sinha was victim of utterance against Ms Sarkars nomination as Chief Minister in 1998.

However, the minister’s assassination triggered high sensation and political speculations. The state left front government had constituted a Judicial Commission with former Calcutta High Court Judge K M Yusuf.

The commission had also submitted the report on being urged by the state government but it had not been placed in the state legislative assembly and made public so far.