By means of PTI
KOLKATA: The Calcutta Top Court docket 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 prime courtroom had previous ordered a CBI investigation into the killings of the 9 folks at Bogtui village.
Prayers have been made sooner than a department bench presided by means of Leader Justice Prakash Shrivastava for ordering a CBI probe into the homicide of Bhadu Sheikh as smartly, 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 an entire investigation.
The bench had on March 25 ordered that the probe into the March 21 violence at Bogtui be passed over to CBI from the West Bengal government-appointed particular investigation staff.
The state DGP had on March 22 mentioned that the violence at Bogtui happened inside of an hour of the homicide of Sheikh, the deputy leader of the native panchayat. Where of the homicide of Sheikh is set a kilometre clear of Bogtui.
