Gorkha Janmukti Morcha relaxes indefinite hill bandh in Darjeeling for two days

Darjeeling: Relief has come Darjeeling's way as the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) suspended its bandh on Tuesday.

This came after the police assured GJM members that their leader Nicole Tamang — one of the prime accused in the killing of Gorkha leader Madan Tamang — would be traced and arrested.

The outfit's infinite bandh that began on Sunday stranded several tourists in the city and forced vehicles off the roads on the national highway that connects neighbouring Sikkim.

The GJM fears Nicole has been killed by the police in a fake encounter. It called for the bandh hours after he fled from the CID custody on Sunday.

The outfit had set a 24-hour deadline to bring back Nicole alive.

Nicole was being held at a CID camp near Siliguri after being remanded to two weeks' police custody by a Darjeeling court.

His mobile was found from the spot in Darjeeling where Madan, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, was stabbed to death on May 21.

Source: IBN Live