Comrade Srikishun Choudhury – survivor of the Bathani Tola massacre of 1996, was the one who filed the FIR in the case and is the main petitioner in the petition in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of the killers. But he died on 8 January 2017 at the age of 50 without seeing justice in his lifetime.
Even before the massacre, Comrade Srikishun had displayed great courage in the resistance struggle against the Ranveer Sena. In the massacre he lost his wife Sundari Devi, and his two daughters Kalavati (aged 8) and Ramavati (aged 3). He never forgot that day of horror that he witnessed. As a witness to the massacre, he was repeatedly threatened by the killers but never lost courage and never turned hostile. He was heartbroken at the High Court verdict overturning the convictions secured in the lower court.
His death poses a question to the judicial system of our country, that made a victim wait for justice for over 20 years and then die without tasting justice.
CPI(ML) is committed to continuing the struggle for justice that Comrade Srikishun waged.Red Salute Comrade Srikishun!
