Kolkata, Jun 13 (PTI) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the CBI to include the name of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supremo Bimal Gurung in the charge sheet in the murder case of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) chief Madan Tamang in 2010.

A Kolkata court in 2017 removed the name of Gurung from the list of the accused persons. Tamang's wife Bharti challenged the order in the high court.

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Tamang was hacked to death in Darjeeling on May 21, 2010 in broad daylight when he was overseeing preparations for a public meeting.

Stating that the City Sessions court judge committed an error by separating Gurung from the other accused person, Justice Subhendu Samanta of the high court directed the CBI probing the murder case to include Gurung's name in the charge sheet.

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"Complicity against Bimal Gurung has been sufficiently established,” Justice Samanta said in his order.

Gurung's counsel had argued before the City Sessions Court that his client was in Kalimpong the day Tamang was murdered, and that the CBI had no proof against him.

“The charge of this case is required to be framed against Bimal Gurung with other accused persons. The alleged portion of the impugned order passed by the Learned Chief Judge of City Sessions Court through which Bimal Gurung was discharged from this case is hereby set aside," the order read.

Bimal Gurung, his wife Asha and several other senior leaders of the GJM had surrendered before a sessions court in Kolkata on December 21, 2016, in connection with the murder case. They were granted bail by the court. PTI dc

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