KOLKATA: The

42nd

anniversary of

Burdwan

Sain

bari

was observed on Sunday at the ill fated house in

Telmaruipara

in

Burdwan

and later another function was held at

Burdwan

town hall. Two minister's

Swapan

Debnath

and Dr.

Rabiranjan

Chattopadhyay

were present in the

programmes

.

After

came to power she formed the first enquiry comission of Burdwan Sain Bari incident. Work of the comission is in progress at the moment. However the relatives of the victims demanded speedy trial of the accused. As senior CPM leaders like

and Binoy Konar were named in the FIR at that time along with 83 persons.

On March 17, 1970, the incident happened a day after the

was toppled. The Sains who were known to be Congress loyalists were attacked and two brothers Pranab Sain and Moloy Sain were brutally murderd in front of their mother and later their mother Mriganayani was forced to eat rice which was stained with her sons blood. Even a tutor who had come to their home at that time Jiten Ray was also murdered. ""After the murder and attack the CPM supporters took out a procession from our house,"" recalled Swarnalata Jash who is a prime witness in this gruesome murder. On that day hes six month old son's 'Annaprasan' was going to take place and even the killers had tossed her son Amrit to kill the six month old baby, claimed, Swarnalata Jash.

Uday Sain brother of the slain sain brothers were present in a programme at burdwan and recalled the incident. He said that the family wants justice and punishment of the accused. The programme of the Burdwan Town Hall was organised by All India Legal Aid Forum. Jaideep Mukherjee, president of All India Legal Aid Forum said that the fight of the Sainbari will not stop. Mukherjee said ""The commission probing the case should work speedily, as recently Tarun Dutta who was then DM of Burdwan recently died, who was also respobsible for shielding the murderers."" He said that there is already a delay of four decades in dispensing justice to the relatives of the slain Sain brothers and Jiten Roy, so the commission should submit its report soon.