People's Democracy

    Two CPI(M) Workers Killed In Purulia

COMRADE Ashis Roy (46) of Adra and Comrade Mohd Aslam (47) of Jhariadi in Purulia were travelling on a motorbike in Raghunathpur, Purulia, on June 26 morning when four miscreants, also on motorcycles, attacked them from behind with guns and shot both the CPI(M) workers dead on the spot at Lower Beniasole before speeding away. In protest, a successful 12-hour bandh was held in Raghunathpur at the call of the Purulia district unit of the CPI(M). 

STOLEN NOBEL MEDALLION

That the stolen Nobel medallion must be somewhere in the Vishwa Bharati itself, was the statement made by Dilip Sinha, former vice chancellor of the Vishwa Bharati University, before the state’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID).  Sinha had once been arrested for his deep involvement in a mark sheet fraud. 

It will be noted that the Nobel medallion and several important items of Tagore’s memorabilia were stolen from the university campus on March 25, 2004. The bodies that carried the investigations included the CBI, but it has produced virtually nothing so far. Sinha was arrested by the CID when charges were lodged against him about attesting false mark sheets to provide the job of a university lecturer to a woman he allegedly knew.  Sinha’s tenure as vice chancellor was marked by widespread administrative malfunctioning and by his open patronage to a section of the Trinamul Congress’s student organisation.