Kolkata Feb 25 PTI The father of student leader Anis Khan whose mysterious death has triggered protests across West Bengal on Friday said he could not spot the man who had come to his house in police uniform on the night the student leader was allegedly killed at the test idenitication TI parade conducted during the day as per the order of Calcutta High Court Salim Khan a septugenarian went to the correctional home at Uluberia where the arrested two in the case - a home guard and a civic volunteer - were kept and subjected to the identification process TI parade is the drill in which the victim or his family are made to identify the accused in a crime Khan who had approached the HC for an enquiry by an independent agency and not by the special investigating team appointed by the government was accompanied by his lawyer The court had on Thursday allowed the SIT probe under strict monitoring After the TI parade he told waiting reporters I could not spot the person from the two presented before me The man in police uniform police who had come to my house on that fateful night of February 18 was not there Voicing displeasure he said I am not happy with the SIT investigation I want court monitored CBI probe On his return Khan met a delegation of Left Front leaders at his residence and iterated his demand CPI-M state secretary Suryakanta Mishra senior party leader Rabin Deb and Left Front Chairman Biman Bose were among those who met the bereaved father They went to the second floor of Khans house from where Anis a former SFI leader and a prominent anti-CAA protestor was allegedly thrown out His family had alleged that Anis had been thrown out from there by four policemen from Amta police station who had forced themselves into his house in the midnight of February 18 There is an unfinished structure with windows having no grill in the second floor They claimed that his body was seen lying outside the house and rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced brought dead The local police station was informed but policemen arrived the next day The Left leaders did not talk to the waiting reporters present at the house CPI-M Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Bhattacharya had said that the incident was a brutal one and that Anis had been killed in cold blood The high level probe into the incident should not be influenced by the state police he had said after the incident PTI SUS KK KK KK

Kolkata Jan 21 PTI Calling the TMC and BJP two sides of one coin the CPIM on Friday said the Mamata Banerjee-led party cannot be trusted as her role in the battle against the saffron camp was never above suspicion Downplaying TMCs efforts to cobble up a united front CPIM state general secretary Suryakanta Mishra also said Bengals ruling party was as much fascist and undemocratic as the BJP TMC leaders have claimed that Banerjee had recently reached out to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for an alliance in poll-bound Goa but her effort apparently failed to evoke much response from the grand old party Mishra hitting out at the TMC said It is up to Sonia ji to decide what will be her response As far as we are concerned Mamata Banerjee cannot be trusted Her role in the battle against the BJP has never been above suspicion Asked about the strategy of the CPIM for the upcoming municipal polls Mishra said Our policy remains the same unity of all Left secular and democratic forces to fight the BJP and the TMC The partys state conference will be held from March 15-17 to further fine-tune our strategy He however did not clarify if his party would be forming an alliance with the Congress for the civic elections Mishra insisted that the CPIM believed that the battle cannot be solely centred on elections but we should remain on the field throughout the year serve people during crisis Leaders of the TMC and the BJP switch sides easily as there isnt much difference in the politics that they practice A former TMC mayor who had crossed over to the BJP is back in the states ruling party He is a candidate of the TMC for Bidhannagar polls It is now difficult to ascertain loyalties of such leaders he stated PTI SUS RMS RMS