Birbhum killings: Calcutta High Court orders CBI probe in TMC chief’s homicide

By PTI

KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a CBI investigation into the homicide of Trinamool Congress chief Bhadu Sheikh, in obvious retaliation to which 9 individuals have been burnt to demise in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.

The excessive courtroom had earlier ordered a CBI investigation into the killings of the 9 folks at Bogtui village.

Prayers have been made earlier than a division bench presided by Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava for ordering a CBI probe into the homicide of Bhadu Sheikh as nicely, claiming that the 2 incidents have been interlinked.

The bench, additionally comprising Justice R Bharadwaj, ordered the switch of the homicide case of Sheikh from the state police to the CBI for the aim of a whole investigation.

The bench had on March 25 ordered that the probe into the March 21 violence at Bogtui be handed over to CBI from the West Bengal government-appointed particular investigation workforce.

The state DGP had on March 22 mentioned that the violence at Bogtui occurred inside an hour of the homicide of Sheikh, the deputy chief of the native panchayat. The place of the homicide of Sheikh is a couple of kilometre away from Bogtui.