The state law minister Ratan Lal Nath on Tuesday counter attacked the opposition leader also the former home minister of Tripura Manik Sarkar over custodial death and said since 1994 under the Left era series of custodial deaths were reported of which some were probed with magisterial enquiry but no outcome has come up with the enquiry report and the former chief minister Manik Sarkar has failed to make statement on this during his rule.
"Series of custodial deaths were registered in Tripura under the rule of Left era, but no solution has been brought to those registered death. Moreover the then Home minister currently the opposition leader Manik Sarkar has made no clarification of the magisterial probes ordered in some of the cases during his rule," said Mr. Nath while addressing a press conference here at the civil secretariat today.
Ratan Lal Nath said the opposition leader is now politicizing the single custodial death reported recently. He said, "Manik Sarkar is making a drama on this custodial death by calling a press conference."
Meantime, the state education minister Ratan Lal Nath took on the previous Left front government and said despite closing down as many as 30 ADC run schools in the state during their era, the previous Left front government is making the water dirty with the BJP-IPFT government's decision of amalgamation of 961 schools in the state.
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