Susanta Ghosh

Susanta Ghosh is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M). He was a West Bengal state cabinet minister in the CPI(M) cabinet of 2006 under the Chief Ministership of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, and is currently Member of the Legislative Assembly from Garbeta (Vidhan Sabha constituency). In the 2006, 2001, 1996, 1991 and 1987 state assembly elections, Susanta Ghosh won the 220 Garbeta East assembly seat. In August 2011, Ghosh was arrested for the murder of seven persons, and spent six months in jail while several bail applications were turned down by the high court. He managed to obtain bail from the Supreme Court in February 2012. The murder charges were the result of a grisly nine-year-old multiple murder, and vigorous police investigation became possible only after the Trinamool Congress came to power in West Bengal. The police dug up an area near Ghosh's ancestral house in Benachpara, Garbeta, where several bodies had long been suspected to have been buried. They discovered seven skeletons, leading to it being called the skeleton case in the media. Eventually, two of the skeletons were identified by matching their DNA with that of living relatives; they were identified as workers of the Trinamool Congress party, who had been killed in a well-known unsolved crime from 2002. Ghosh was identified as the leader of the murderous attack, and an application for anticipatory bail and several other bail requests were rejected after testimony from other arrested accomplices appeared to implicate him.