Click to play videoNew Delhi/ Kolkata: Tapasi Malik, 19, was murdered at the height of the Singur agitation last December.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has now confirmed that a CPI-M activist murdered her. Tapasi, who was fighting against farmland acquisition, was found dead on December 18 from the area fenced off for the proposed Tata small car plant.
The death immediately took a political dimension. Triamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who was then on a hunger strike against farmland acquisition in Singur, demanded a CBI probe. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya conceded a day later
The CBI last week arrested CPI-M activist Debu Malik, a resident of Singur, in connection with the murder after he failed to clear a polygraph test in Delhi. Debu has now allegedly confessed to the charges before a court.
Sources in CBI say that some more CPI-M leaders in Singur will be arrested very soon. Surhid Dutta, the party’s zonal committee head in Singur, Dibakar Das, district committee member, party supporters Santosh Malik, Mahadeb Kolay and Manik Santra and Debu's cousin Joydeb Malik
The CBI has started interrogating four of them in Kolkata. At Singur, Tapasi's parents are happy that their daughter's killer is finally behind bars.
While the CPI-M was distancing itself from Debu Malik, the imminent arrest of some more party workers could give the opposition fresh ammunition against Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's government.
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