Kolkata: A court in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Tuesday sentenced eight CPI-M workers to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of Trinamool Congress activist Khudiram Hembram.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Sanjay Kumar Sharma of the Chinsurah court pronounced the sentence in the 15-year-old murder case.

According to police records, Trimamool activist Hembram was murdered on March 18 in 2010, on the day of his son’s Higher Secondary (class 12) examination in Hooghly district’s Gurap area.

On that day, Hembram had gone to the house of a friend named Tapan Ruidas after finishing farming work in the field. However, he did not return home that day. The next day, on March 19, the police recovered his body, covered in blood, in a sack from the Damodar Valley Corporatio

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