In the Bijon Setu Massacre of 1982, 16 monks and a nun of the Hindu organization Ananda Marga were murdered and set on fire in broad daylight near Ballygunge in Kolkata.
The Kerala Chief Secretary, Tom Jose, wrote about how Maoists should rightly be termed as terrorists and how state action against these terrorist elements in fully and wholly justified
The scam allegedly occurred during Badal Choudhury's tenure as PWD Minister. A special court in Tripura has issued a non-bailable warrant against former chief secretary Yashpal Singh.