AGARTALA, August 17 (TIWN): Tripura High Court (HC) on Monday hearing the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the then state health minister Bimal Sinha murder case Yusuf Commission report had issued a notice to at least four respondents. Social activist Kalyani Roy also an advocate filed the PIL with the court over the government’s failure towards publishing the Yusuf Commission report.
HC issued a notice to State Chief Secretary Yashpal Singh, Secretary to the state Home Department, DM (West) and DM (Dhalai) seeking reply by November 23, said Roy.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. Under the division bench of Chief Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Subhashish Talapatra conducted the hearing of the case.

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.