Three GJM youths held for policeman's murder

The GNLF team in Singamari, a Bimal Gurung stronghold, on Wednesday.

TNN |  Nov 2, 2017, ALIPURDUAR/DARJEELING: The CID arrested three Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) members, all Bimal Gurung loyalists, from Poolbazar in the Bijanbari area in Darjeeling in connection with the murder of sub-inspector Amitava Malik.

The three arrested — Named Shyam Kami (30), Mahendra Kami (29) and Dewan Lepcha (30) — hail from Alipurduar. While Shyam is from Kumargramduar block's New Lands Tea Estate, Mahendra is a resident of Khas Bustee in Birpara in Madarihat block and Dewaj is from Daragaon in Buxaduar, Kalchini block. Named Shyam Kami, the prime accused, has been booked under the Arms Act.

"Of the three arrested, one [Shyam] is named in the FIR. CID has claimed that the other two also had a hand in Malik's murder and the huge cache of arms recovered. The ACJM court in Siliguri has remanded the three in a fortnight's police custody," said assistant public prosecutor Sudip Roy Basunia. The three have been booked under sections related to waging war against the state, along with attempt to murder. Police have also slapped sections of the Explosives Act on all three.

In the Hills, the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) on Wednesday entered GJM chief Bimal Gurung's stronghold in the Singamari-Tukvar constituency and appointed a convener to carry out party activities in the area. GNLF president Mann Singh reached Manzil Rai's house near Mount Hermon school just below Singamari in the morning with a huge number of supporters. Rai was a GJM activist, but had joined TMC a few years back. With the start of the fresh statehood agitation, Rai was believed to have rejoined GJM, reportedly out of fear.

On Wednesday, the GNLF president welcomed Rai to the party fold and appointed him convener of the Singamari-Tukvar constituency, from where the GJM president had been elected GTA chairman. While GNLF made its way to Tukvar, the district administration on Wednesday sealed the GJM office at Singamari with police help. Darjeeling SDO Avik Chatterjee said GJM had forcibly taken possession of the four-storey building. "The building is a government property and was leased to a tea garden," Chatterjee said.

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