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AGARTALA, February 3 (TIWN): Final hearing of the Sushil Choudhury’s plea against lower court verdict of life time imprisonment is scheduled on April 4th. On Tuesday, lawyer of Sushil Choudhury, Pijush Kanti Biswas appealed to the Division Bench of Chief Justice, Deepak Gupta for the suspension of the judgment of lower Court. However, the Court had not issued any order and scheduled the final date of hearing on April 4th. Earlier, here that the Court had earlier issued a notice in the month of August that if the hearing was not completed within January 31st, Sushil can again apply fresh for bail and the quick processing of the case. Likewise, Lawyer Biswas had appealed today.Earlier, Convict of triple murder case at Dainik Ganadoot Patrika – Sushil Choudhury appealed on July 30, 2014 at the High Court challenging the verdict of the West Tripura Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court that sentenced him to life term imprisonment on July 17.
Choudhury counsel Piyush Kanti Biswas today filed the plea before the High Court of Tripura. The Additional District and Sessions Judge Court on July 17 issued the verdict of life term imprisonment for Sushil Choudhury in connection with the murder of three employees of Dainik Ganadoot Patrika on May 19 last year.
The court slapped a fine of Rs. 60,000 on the convict.
Three employees of an Agartala-based Bengali daily newspaper were stabbed to death by Sushil Choudhury and assailants on May 19th.
Three non-journalist employees; Ranjit Chowdhury (Manager), Sujit Bhattacharjee (Proof reader) and Balaram Ghosh (Driver) of Dainik Ganadoot Patrika were brutally killed in a broad daylight at Ganadoot Bhavan in Palace compound on May 19, last year. Their death has not been forgotten.
Though the owner-cum-editor of Dainik Ganadoot newspaper- Sushil Chowdhury allegedly tried to flee from the blame of his involvement in triple murder but police had arrested him for masterminding the case on June 7, last year and lower court convicted him.
The 75-year-old Sushil who had the rare opportunity to travel with several Presidents and Prime Ministers on their foreign trips is currently behind the bars and facing prosecution after a brief police custody since his arrest as his bail pleas were rejected by the Supreme Court and High Court for several times
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