Kalimpong, April 10: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung today invited the CBI to visit the Darjeeling hills to take fresh look at the killing of C.K. Pradhan, the GNLF strongman from Kalimpomg.

Accusing the GNLF of obstructing the CBI, which is investigating CK’s (as he is known in the hills) killing, Gurung said that Subash Ghsingh’s party always put up road blockades whenever the central agency visited the hills to investigate the case.

“We invite the CBI to the hills for an impartial enquiry into the killing, now that the GNLF has gone,” Gurung said.

He also accused GNLF councillor Tshering Sherpa of sheltering Nirey Gurung, the main accused in the case.

CK, a one time confidant of Ghisingh, was shot dead on October 3, 2002, months after he fell out with the GNLF chief. Regarded as a stalwart of the Gorkhaland movement in the eighties, CK was the undisputed leader in Kalimpong till the major part of his eventful political career.