After passing of 16 days, the investigation police teams were till Thursday unable to arrest main accused persons involved in the sensational murder of club secretary of Bharat Ratna Sangha of Usha Bazar, Durga Prasanna Deb alias Viki, who was shot dead on April 30 night.

But,  on Thursday again after rounds of police custody, two accused shooter cum one of the prime accused Sandip Kar alias Akash and  Sunny Saha, brother-in-law of prime accused Raju Barman were produced before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of West Tripura with police remand appeals and court after hearing both prosecution and defense teams,  sent them for 4 more days police custody and they will again produce before the court on May 20 next.

So far, the Agartala city police has arrested six persons including former Bharta Ratna club president, Pradyot Dhar Chowdhury, Sushmita Sarkar and her mother Uma Sarkar, Sandip Kar alias Akash, Sunny Saha and Birchakra Ghosh, younger brother of another prime accused Prabakar Ghosh. Out of six arrested persons, Pradyot Dhar Chowdhury and Sushmita Sarkar are in jail custody and the remaining four accused persons are in police custody for interrogation.

Giving details, special public prosecutor Shankar Lodh said that two accused persons including Pradyot Dhar Chowdhury and Sushmita Sarkar were produced before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (West Tripura) on May 14 and the prosecution team appealed for their jail custody. After hearing, the court sent both of them for 15 days jail custody and another accused Birchakra Ghosh, younger brother of prime accused Prabakar Ghosh was again sent for six days police custody.

Sushmita’s mother Uma Sarkar was produced before the court on May 15 and she was again sent for 5 days police custody for interrogation and will again be produced before the court on May 20 next.

Earlier, on Saturday (May 11) , the Agartala city police on Saturday produced shooter cum one of the prime accused Sandip Kar alias Akash before the court  with ten days police remand appeal  involved with the sensational murder of club secretary of Bharat Ratna Sangha of Usha Bazar, Durga Prasanna Deb alias Viki.

The police investigation team on May 9th last has arrested  Sandip Kar alias Akash (35) of Usha Bazar area from a railway station in Jharkhand state, but after two days,  police has revealed his arrest and produced him before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (West Tripura) on Saturday (May 11), who was brought with transit remand from Jharkhand.

Special public prosecutor Shankar Lodh said that the  police investigation is in progress and based on the interrogation statements and with scientific evidence, police will soon be able to arrest remaining accused involved in the murder.

The investigation team with orders of Magistrate had conducted massive search operations at the houses of many accused including Raju Barman, Biman Das, Prabakar Ghosh, Amit Ghosh, Debabrata Barman, Rakesh Barman and Deb Das on Tuesday(May 7th), but till date they were unable to get any substantial evidences from their houses.

While, the court has issued permanent non-bailable arrest warrants against all FIR named accused persons, who were locally infamous as negotiation mafias.

The investigation team so far was unable to arrest the remaining half-dozen of accused including some noted negotiation mafias, but claimed that investigation was in the final stage and would soon resolve the murder mystery.

Special Public Prosecutor Shankar Lodh said that after the sensational murder on Tuesday evening (April 30) at Shalbagan area under Agartala Airport police station, police have registered an Suo-Moto FIR under section 302, 120(B) of IPC and 27 Arms Act against assailants.

The shootout at Shalbagan Bazar was committed only with prime reason of growing rivalry among different groups of negotiation mafias and the North side of Agartala city has once again in limelight , in which  club secretary of Bharat Ratna Sangha shot dead, which mainly committed for a share of money of negotiation for CPW contracts.

Viki’s wife said that negotiation mafias including Raju Barman, Biman Das, Rakesh Barman, Debabrata Barman, Santosh, Amit Ghosh and Prabakar Ghosh were responsible for the killing of her husband and she had also named these persons in the FIR.

Meanwhile , the hearing for anticipatory bail petition for senior advocate Samrat Kar Bhowmik will be heard by the session court on May 17, who is defense lawyer with the sensational murder.

Kar Bhowmik with apprehension of police arrest has appealed for bail after the investigation officer (IO) of the murder case, Prajit Malakar has served a notice under 91 of CrPc  with request to hand over the alleged hard disk of CCTV footage , recovered  from the house of prime accused Raju Barman.