Police reports regarding the incident unidentified ten members of the organization National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) as being responsible for the murder.
[citation needed] After completing his pilgrimage, he devoted his life to establishing the Shanti Kali Ashram, first consecrated in 1979 at Manu in Subrum, on the auspicious day of Shiv Chaturdashi.
At night, militants belonging to the separatist NLFT, broke into the ashram and murdered the priest[2] for refusing to convert to Christianity along with his followers.
[3] On 4 December 2000, nearly three months after his death, an ashram set up by Shanti Kali at Chachu Bazar near the Sidhai police station was raided by Christian militants belonging to the NLFT.
In the months following his death, eleven of the priest's ashrams, schools, and orphanages around the state were closed down by the NLFT.