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came to power, the
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took up the investigation in 1996, but did not make much progress, allegedly due to interference from the state government. On 30 April 1999, the Ananda Marga
Pracharaka Samgha (AMPS) demanded a high-level judicial probe led by a working Supreme Court judge into the mass killing of Ananda Margis. On
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Commission sources, documents allege that important CPI(M) leaders of the Kasba-Jadavpur area met at Colony Bazar in Picnic Garden on 6 February 1982 to discuss the Ananda Margis, whose headquarters was at a difficult-to-access location in Tiljala then. The meeting was reportedly
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30 April 2004, Ananda Marga held the first rally in
Calcutta commemorating the massacre without the need to acquire a court order for permission. The group continues to block the bridge and surrounding areas on 30 April every year with a procession.
292:, on 30 April 1982. Although the attacks were carried out in broad daylight, no arrests were ever made. After repeated calls for a formal judicial investigation, a single-member judicial commission was set up in 2012 to investigate the killings.
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in Bengal at the time of the murders, and his police force were accused of inaction, and he formed the Deb
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concluded in his study the government's overall attitude was that the Ananda Marga members had "got themselves killed because they were so sinfully invidious". The story sent out by
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144:1998 Chapnari massacre
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