Darjeeling- Madan Tamang, the chief of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, was hacked to death in Darjeeling on while overseeing preparations of a meeting. When he was asThe CBI has indicted the entire top leadership of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), the ruling party in Darjeeling, for the murder of All India Gorkha League (AIGL) president Madan Tamang. The agency, which has been probing the murder since 2011, filed the final supplementary chargesheet in the case at a Kolkata civil court on Friday. GJM president and chief of Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA),
Bimal Gurung, and Morcha general secretary Roshan Giri — who have been charged with “criminal conspiracy for murder” — are among the nine top leaders named in the charge sheet.
Apart from Gurung and Giri, the chargesheet names GJM women’s wing chief and Gurung’s wife Asha Gurung, GTA chairman Pradip Pradhan, Morcha vice-president Benoy Tamang, MLA Harka Bahadur Chhetri, GTA deputy chief executive Ramesh Alley and Gurung’s two close associates — Dinesh Theeng and Devendra Sharma. Fourteen other Morcha members have also been charged. Significantly, Bimal Gurung, Asha Gurung and Roshan Giri were also named in the FIR lodged by Bharti Tamang — Madan Tamang’s wife after his murder on May 21, 2010. In all, CBI has chargesheeted 51 Morcha members in the case. While top leaders including Bimal Gurung, Roshan Giri, Benoy Tamang, Harkabahadur Chhetri, Pradip Pradhan and Ramesh Alley have been charged under Section 120b (criminal conspiracy), 302 ( murder), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 150 (hiring or conniving at hiring of persons to join unlawful assembly) of the IPC, Asha Gurung and 14 others have been charged for murder, rioting and for being armed with deadly weapon.
Now it is to be seen if the law will take its own course or political influence by GJM will have all the accused go Scot free.
