AGARTALA: Opposition Congress on Friday demanded a National Investigation Agency(NIA) probe into the forceful midnight drive through Akhaura Check Post in Agartala by three tribal youths, including an engineer, on December 26.
Addressing the media here, Leader of the Opposition Ratan Lal Nath said the trio was sent to meet banned All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) supremo Ranjit Debbarma in Bangladesh, as the police report across the border had substantiated it. But surprisingly, the Tripura police had registered a case under the Passport Act.
“It is well established that the CPI-M has clandestine relation with the ATTF, as its supremo himself was a cadre of the party till 1993. The left leaders had sent these three youths to bring him back before the Assembly elections as is evident from their association with the party,” Mr Nath said.
According to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967 (amendment 2010) such cases had to be registered under sections 121-130 of Indian Penal Code and immediately this had to be handed over to the NIA because of the latest amendment of the provisions, he stated. The three tribal youths drove the car by crossing the border brigade at Akhaura Check Post and crashed into Bangladesh on December 26 midnight.
Referring to Bangladeshi media reports, Mr Nath said, “the association of three youths with anti-Indian militants was established and Bangladesh police had also indicated their political alliance in India. But the state government had been trying to establish it as a simple act of innocent youths.”He alleged that nexus between the CPI-M and banned militant outfits was not new in Tripura because the ruling Left Front had stooped to a new low by approaching the apex court to give relief to three killers of Bimal Sinha.
“The state government’s criminal revision petition for acquitting three prime accused of killing Mr Sinha in 1998 was denied by the district court in 2005. The government then approached the High Court which turned down their plea in 2007. They then moved the Supreme Court to relieve the main accused, which is evident of Left Front’s attitude towards anti-Indian forces,” Mr Nath added.
Moreover, former CPI-M MLA Binduram Reang’s son Upendra Reang is the present chief of NLFT militant wing and former Chief Secretary V Thulasidas had identified 500 overground extremists in different government departments. (UNI)