Calcutta HC rejects bail prayer of TMCP members in murder case

The Calcutta High Court today rejected the bail prayer of two Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad activists arrested in connection with the murder of a college student.
A division bench, comprising Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Shankar Acharya, dismissed the bail plea of Sheikh Munna and Sanwar Ali.
Moving the bail petition, advocate Pratim Chowdhury argued that since these two persons were not slapped with murder charges they had prayed for bail in a court in West Midnapore district.
But as the court had rejected the bail prayer, they moved the Calcutta High Court for bail, he said.
Justice Bagchi wanted to know from Public Prosecutor Manjit Singh why the two TMCP activists were not accused of the same charges as 19 Chhatra Parishad, Congress student wing, workers since they were all involved in the alleged murder.

The Court rejected the bail prayer as the PP had no reply.
A third year BA student of Sabang college Krishna Prasad Jana was beaten to death during a clash between student unions of Congress and the state's ruling Trinamool Congress over felicitation of West Bengal minister Soumen Kumar Mahapatra at a college at Sabang in West Midnapore district on August 7.
Both Chhatra Parishad and Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad had claimed Jana to be their member.