Forward Bloc

 

COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 22: The ten-member team of Forward Bloc MLAs led by the party's leader in the Assembly Mr Jiban Saha conducted a two-day visit to Dinhata from yesterday. Today they talked with some eyewitnesses of the police firing that claimed five lives on 5 February. They also visited the Dinhata Court complex where the incident occurred on that day. During their two-day visit the Forward Bloc MLAs met with the bereaved family members of the killed supporters and also talked with the injured ones.

 

Meanwhile, the forty Forward Bloc supporters who were arrested in connection with the violence of 5 February are still inside the jail. Though the High Court already granted bail to them they failed to come out due to different reasons. Party sources said that they were granted bail against surety of Rs 20,000 per head and they will not be allowed to stay in Cooch Behar till further order of the court. A hotel was earmarked at Alipurduar in Jalpaiguri district to accommodate them after their release on bail for the stipulated period, FB sources said. []