Maoist victims in Purulia receive central grant

District Magistrate Abanindra Singh today handed over the cheques to the next of kin of the 12 victims, while family members of one victim had collected it on Tuesday.

The widow of school teacher Soumyajit Basu, who was kidnapped and killed in October 2010, collected her cheque on Tuesday as she had informed the DM's office earlier that it would not be possible for her to come today, officials said.

Basu was accompanying his friend Partha Sarathi Biswas, an inspector-rank officer deputed at the state IB, who was also killed by the Maoists.

Remains of their bodies were found five months later but his wife refused to acknowledge the body as her husband's and it was still lying in a morgue.

Naturally, Biswas' family members did not get any cheque, the officials said.