Undertrial still at large

 

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 31: Police are yet to trace out the undertrial prisoner who escaped from MJN Hospital in Cooch Behar last night. It is suspected that he may have fled away to Assam. All concerned police stations were alerted about the incident.

 

Police said one Haradhan Das (35), stated to be a thief, was arrested from Tufanganj on 21 July. Since then he was in the Tufanganj Sub-divisional Correctional Home. On 22 August he was shifted to MJN Hospital in Cooch Behar with different ailments he was suffering from. He was kept in the medical cell in the hospital. Last evening at about 8 p.m. he went to the toilet and fled away by breaking open the window. At that time the entire area was under a power cut and he took that opportunity to run away.

 

As the person is a resident of Tufanganj the police started a massive raid there to re-arrest him. A senior police official said that they are not winding up the possibility of his crossing over to Assam. []

 

Martyrs Day observed

 

COOCH BEHAR, Aug. 31: Cooch Behar district unit of the SUCI observed Martyrs Day today in memory of the martyrs of the food movement of 1949 and the movement against price hike of essential commodities in 1990. A street corner meeting was organised at Kachhari Morh on the occasion where leaders like Mr Kajal Chakraborty, Mr Purna Mandal, Md Achharuddin Ahmed, Ms Rina Ghosh and Md Ali Hossain spoke. After the meeting the SUCI supporters took out a procession in the town and later submitted a memorandum containing a 12-point charter of demands to the state Governor through the Cooch Behar Sadar SDO. []