Tapasi murder: Dutta, Mallik charge-sheeted

CPIM leader Suhrid Baran Dutta and party activist Debu Mallik, arrested in connection with the murder of a woman, Tapasi Malik, in Singur, the site of the Tata Motors car plant, were on Saturday charge-sheeted by the CBI.

The charge-sheet was submitted by CBI investigation officer Parthasarathy Basu in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Pradip Bandhopadhyay here. They were charged under Sections 120 murder, 120 B criminal conspiracy and 201 destruction of evidence of the IPC.

Mallik appeared in court, but Dutta, former CPIM Singur Zonal Committee Secretary, did not as he was ill.