High Court Orders CBI Probe Into Trinamool Leader's Murder In Birbhum

Friday, 8 April 2022newsdesk

The murder of a Trinamool Congress leader, which had allegedly led to a revenge attack in which nine people were burnt to death in West Bengal's Birbhum district last month, should be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Calcutta High Court ruled on Friday.

New Delhi, 08 April 2022

As per news report of NDTV, The High Court had earlier ordered a CBI investigation into the gruesome Birbhum killings that took place in Bogtui village on March 21. The court had been requested to order a CBI probe into the murder of Trinamool leader Bhadu Sheikh as well with a petition that said the two incidents were linked. The judges ordered the transfer of the murder case of Sheikh from the state police to the CBI for a thorough investigation. The state police chief had on March 22 said that the violence at Bogtui took place within an hour of the murder of Sheikh, the deputy chief of the local panchayat. The place of the murder of Sheikh is about a kilometre away from Bogtui.

Source - NDTV