Darjeeling: The CID on Wednesday attached the house of Bimal
Gurung and wife Asha following a court order after the two leaders
failed to appear in November last year.
On Wednesday, the police
attached the three storied residential building of Gurung situated at
Patlebas, about 4km from Darjeeling town.
The CID with help from
Darjeeling police also attached movable properties like furnitures and
other household items. The list of the seized items will be forwarded to
court, said a police source.
Cases
had been started against Gurung and other Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
leaders, including Roshan Giri, on June 9 after clashes between party
supporters and police a day before. The violence took place barely 100
meters from the Raj Bhavan where chief minister Mamata Banerjee was
holding a cabinet meeting.
The protest spearheaded by the Morcha was against the purported plans
of the state government to make Bengali language compulsory in hill
schools, even though the government had not issued any written order or
notification in this regard.
Following the incident, the language
movement snowballed into a statehood agitation that was followed by an
unprecedented 104-day general strike.
After the June 8 incident,
police had started cases against Gurung and other Morcha leaders under
various provisions of the arms act, explosive act and for destruction of
public properties and attempt to murder and rioting among others.
The
case was taken over by the CID on June 29, 2017, and a special
investigation team (SIT) was formed. The chief judicial magistrate's
court had directed Gurung, Giri and other leaders to appear and
surrender last November.
"The accused persons failed to appear
before court that day. On March 28, 2018, police prayed for declaration
of absconding accused as proclaimed offender and also prayed for
attachment of movable and immovable properties of the accused persons,"
said Pankaj Prasad, assistant public prosecutor.
The plea was
accepted and "an order of attachment" to compel the appearance of
accused, was passed by the CJM's court the next day.
The Telegraph
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