Former CPI(M) min asked to depose before Inquiry Commission

The Calcutta High Court today directed former CPI-M minister Kanti Ganguly to appear before a Commission of Inquiry probing the killing of 17 Anandamargis in 1982.
Justice Dipankar Dutta, while directing Ganguly to appear before the Commission, however, said that the Commission would not cross-examine him.
Justice Dutta directed that Ganguly, in his deposition before the Commission, would speak out of his own volition with regard to the incident.
The Mamata Banerjee government had set up the Justice (Retd) Amitava Lala Commission of Inquiry into the killing of 17 Anandamargis on Bijan Setu, a flyover in south Kolkata, on April 30, 1982.

Ganguly had challanged his summons to depose before the Commission, claiming that the previous Left Front government had constituted a Commission of Inquiry into the same matter and its report was not yet submitted.