The Calcutta High Court set aside a lower court's decision to discharge Bimal Gurung from the case concerning the 2010 murder of Madan Tamang, who was then the president of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL).

In 2017, Tamang’s wife Bharati and the CBI appealed to the high court and filed a revision petition challenging the Calcutta city session court’s decision to remove Gurung, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief, from the chargesheet.

“The alleged portion of the impugned order passed by the learned chief judge of the city sessions court through which he discharged Gurung from the case has been set aside,” said Amar Lama, Madan’s brother and a lawyer.

Justice Subhendu Samanta of the high court also directed that charges be framed against Gurung along with the other accused in the case.

On May 21, 2010, Tamang was brutally murdered just before he was scheduled to address a public meeting in Darjeeling, where he was expected to disclose sensitive information about hill politics. At that time, the Gurung-led Morcha held sway over Darjeeling's political landscape.

Tamang had been accusing Gurung and his Morcha of being insincere about their statehood demand for "Gorkhaland" and instead willing to settle for an autonomous council under that name.

Initially, the CID was investigating the case. However, after Nicole Tamang, a Morcha member and a key accused, escaped from CID custody, the case was transferred to the CBI.

In its chargesheet dated May 29, 2015, the CBI implicated Gurung and 47 of his associates in the case, including his wife Asha and politicians such as Roshan Giri and Binay Tamang. In 2017, the Calcutta city sessions court removed Gurung from the chargesheet, citing insufficient evidence presented by the CBI against him.

Krishna Kumari Rai, the wife of Sikkim Chief Minister P.S. Tamang (Golay), stepped down as the MLA of Namchi-Singithang on Thursday, just a day after being sworn in. The Speaker accepted her resignation, although the exact reason for her decision remains undisclosed.