[2] Historian Narasingha Sil concluded in his study the government's overall attitude was that the Ananda Marga members had "got themselves killed because they were so sinfully invidious".
[4] As part of its initial coverage, The Statesman Weekly reported the state's chief minister's suspicions that the attack had been staged to embarrass the party in power before the upcoming election.
[5]: 257 Jyoti Basu, the chief minister in Bengal at the time of the murders, and his police force were accused of inaction, and he formed the Deb Commission in response to the pressure.
[10] The National Human Rights Commission took up the investigation in 1996, but did not make much progress, allegedly due to interference from the state government.
[12][10] On 30 April 2004, Ananda Marga held the first rally in Calcutta commemorating the massacre without the need to acquire a court order for permission.
[15] According to Commission sources, documents[specify] allege that important CPI(M) leaders of the Kasba-Jadavpur area met at Colony Bazar in Picnic Garden on 6 February 1982 to discuss the Ananda Margis, whose headquarters was at a difficult-to-access location in Tiljala then.
[citation needed] The first attack on the Margis took place in 1967 at their Purulia Global Headquarters, where five of their members were allegedly killed by the CPI(M) cadres.