India, March 17 -- On March 14, when Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders got into a physical altercation at East Midnapore district's Nandigram over paying homage to the 14 villagers killed in police firing on that date in 2007, Sunil Bar was not even aware that a month ago, the Calcutta high court had ordered fresh investigation into his father's murder in 2008.

"Nobody told me about the court order. What difference will it make now? My father was 42 when he was killed. I was 16. Being the only son, I had to leave school and work as we had no farmland and nobody to support us. My struggle continues," Bar, a resident of Nandigram's Gokulnagar village, told HT.

After a series of hearings on two petitions, of...