On October 17, Sunday, a youth BJP leader named Mithun Ghosh from Itahar in the North Dinajpur district of West Bengal, was killed outside his home in the Rajgram village.
He is the third judge hailing from West Bengal to recuse himself from cases involving the TMC. Earlier Supreme Court judges Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Indira Banerjee had recused themselves.