AGARTALA, March 23 (TIWN): After a total of 18 years of duration, the Tripura Law minister Tapan Chakraborty on Wednesday placed the much controversial Yusuf commission report on the 3rd day of Tripura budget session at the Tripura assembly.

Following a writ petition filed by a senior advocate Kalyani Roy in the Tripura High Court, the court recently ordered the government to publish the report immediately and the government stated in court that the report would be tabled in the budget session of the assembly.

However, as per the orders from the HC the Tripura government has finally published the Yusuf Commission report after 18years.

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.

It is to be mentioned here that the Yusuf Commission report revealed that the then state health minister Bimal Sinha had hand with the extremist and his relationship with the extremist has lead to his death.

Sinha was assassinated due to his close link with the banned insurgent outfit National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), stated the report.

The report further stated that the relationship between the then minister Bimal Sinha and NLFT was very disappointing.  The report further criticised the role of police into the case. Police need to be given training in the state, claimed the report.

Questioning the role of state police, the report further stated that the state police are not eligible enough in providing safeguard to the ministers of the state and necessary training to be given to the police for their development.

Moreover police should follow the rules and law and shouldn’t work according to the steps of the ministers and the VVIP’s, stated the Yusuf Commission report.

State social activist Kalyani Roy also an advocate lodged a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) 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).

It is to be mentioned here that a local vernacular daily published the report on Friday last, claiming it was made available to the newspaper and that Sinha was assassinated due to his close link with the banned insurgent outfit National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).

The leader of the opposition (Congress), Sudip Roy Burman, raised the issue in the floor of the assembly on Friday and demanded an inquiry on how the report could be leaked before it was tabled in the assembly.