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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

CHOTO ANGARIA




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  1. Please be happy with this old news; June 7, 2009. Special court of Midnapore absolved all 12 accused in Chhoto Angaria case lodged by CBI. Justice Shyamal Sengupta, West Midnapore fifth additional district session judge, said in his judgement that no evidence could be furnished by CBI against accused and thus they were all absolved of all charges and acquitted. CBI had charged CPI(M) workers, including two district committee members Tapan Ghosh and Sukur Ali, of murder, kidnapping with intention to murder, criminal conspiracy, arson, unlawful assembly with deadly weapons and illegal possession of arms. None could be proved with any evidence. Biman Basu has expressed satisfaction that justice delayed was not always justice denied, as present case had amply proved with trumped up accusations summarily dismissed in court of law. The case harks back, we recall, to the fiery days and weeks of the early part of 2001 when Trinamool with the help of the then People’s War Group or PWG (who subsequently merged with other Naxalite factions to become the CPI-Maoist) were deep into a storm of violence in the Keshpur-Garbeta region of Midnapore to sweep out CPI (M) from rural countryside. A total of 109 CPI (M) workers were killed in the run up to the 2001 assembly polls in this district alone. On Jan 4, 2001, dozen-odd Trinamuli-Maoist criminals had assembled at one Bakhtar Mondal’s house at Chhoto Angaria village of Garbeta. Their purpose was making bombs as well as crude improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as later events proved. Deep into night, entire village was shaken into awakening by ear-splittingly loud bang of a huge explosion as something went very wrong at Mondal household and entire stockpile of explosive material burst into one massive blast. That house itself disappeared into tiny pieces of rubble over a very large area. No bodies were to be found by hordes of forensic experts who descended on the scene quickly enough, and CBI drew up a list of important CPI(M) functionaries and inter alia held them accused of having caused the explosion. Arrests were made with equal alacrity and those arrested were sent in on long terms of either police or jail custody. CPI (M) Midnapore west district secretary Professor Dipak Sarkar expressed his happiness at acquittal of Chhoto Angaria accused, and released comrades were brought out of court house in a large procession and were garlanded. It may be noted that CPI (M) had done very well in parliamentary polls in the district, as in the rest of laterite zone. In Garbeta segment of Jhargram (ST) seat, CPI (M) had won 81 per cent of the valid votes, increasing its lead by 23,000 votes from that achieved in 2006 assembly polls. (BP)

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