MIDNAPORE SKELETONS CASE: 14-day judicial custody for Sushanta Ghosh!

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CNN-IBN / Posted on Aug 20, 2011 at 06:43pm IST.

Kolkata: Former CPI (M) minister Sushanta Ghosh has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days. Ghosh was arrested in connection with the skeletons recovered from near his ancestral home in West Midnapore. The former minister has already been in CID remand for 11 days.

Ghosh was arrested in connection with the skeletons recovered from his near ancestral home in West Midnapore which are believed to be murdered Trinamool workers.

Ghosh allegedly masterminded the murder of seven Trinamool Congress workers nine years ago and remained untouched, thanks to a botched up police probe.

All that changed in June this year following the change of guard in the state's power corridors.  Five skeletons were dug up from a pit near Gosh's ancesteral home in Garbeta and the leader topped the list of the 40 CPI (M) men named in the FIR filed by the victims' relatives. A DNA test report identified two of the five skeletons as that of the slain Trinamool victims.

Ghosh is currently being interrogated. The CPI (M), however, claims that Ghosh has been framed.

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Former CPI(M) minister accused of murder arrested!

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Press Trust Of India / ibnlive.in.com / Posted on Aug 11, 2011 at 09:19pm IST.

Midnapore: Former CPI (M) minister Susanta Ghosh, a key accused in a case of murder, was arrested on Thursday by the CID after a local court rejected his anticipatory bail.

Chief Judicial Magistrate (Midnapore), Manoj Rai dismissed the conditional bail granted by the court on July 26 to Ghosh, the former Paschim Anchal Unnayan Affairs minister.

The bail was rejected by the magistrate after a report by the CID that the DNA of two out of seven skeletons dug up from near the former minister's residence matched those of the two missing Trinamool Congress supporters, Ajoy Acharya and Raju Sinha.

The magistrate remanded Ghosh to CID custody for seven days.

The interrogation of the former minister, who would be taken to Kolkata, would begin on Thursday night, police said.

Seven skeletons were dug up from near Ghosh's ancestral house at Benachapra in the Garbeta police station area in West Midnapore district on June 2.

An FIR had been filed against the former minister on June 4 at the Anandpur police station after Ajoy Acharya's son claimed that he had recognised his father from the clothes on one of the skeletons.

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