Birbhum killings: Ruling TMC miffed as CBI start investigation

Express News Service

KOLKATA: A 30-member staff of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths, led by DIG Akhilesh Singh, arrived at Rampurhat in Birbhum to probe into the bloodbath claiming eight lives following the killing of a neighborhood Trinamool Congress chief.

Divided into two teams, the sleuths of the central company met the members of the particular investigation staff (SIT) fashioned by the state authorities after the incident and visited the home at Bogtui village from the place the charred our bodies have been recovered.

Late on March 21, a number of homes at Bogtui village have been set ablaze in retaliation to the homicide of a neighborhood Trinamool Congress chief and eight individuals, together with six ladies and a baby, have been charred to dying. Police arrested 23 individuals, together with the TMC’s native block president whose identify was dropped by chief minister Mamata Banerjee in public throughout her go to to the carnage web site.

The CBI sleuths collected case particulars on Saturday. A staff of 20 CBI officers examined the charred home from the place seven of the our bodies have been recovered and labored with the consultants of the central forensic laboratory to gather samples.

“We will accumulate statements of eyewitnesses. The homicide of the native TMC chief will even be investigated as a result of the bloodbath is claimed to be a fall out of it. We are engaged on a warfare footing because the excessive court docket has requested us to submit a report on April 7,’’ stated a CBI officer.

The TMC, nonetheless, criticised the CBI probe into the worst carnage since Mamata Banerjee’s authorities got here to energy in 2011.

“The chief minister had fashioned the SIT and instructed the police to arrest the perpetrators and guarantee exemplary punishment for them. The CPI(M) and the BJP are taking part in their political card on the our bodies of eight victims. CBI probe was not ordered into the Hathras case and its likes. No leaders of the then ruling occasion visited the crime web site in Nandigram firing and killing of villagers in Netai in Lalgarh. But chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited Bogtui and warranted all authorities helps,’’ stated TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.  

The Calcutta High Court had handed over probe into the Bogtui village carnage to the CBI and reportedly directed the central intelligence company to file a main investigation report throughout the subsequent listening to on April 7.