The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered CBI investigation into the murder of a Trinamool Congress leader, which had led to the brutal killing of eight people who were charred to death in West Bengal’s Birbhum district last month.
A CBI probe into the killings of the eight people at Bogtui village is already underway. The top court had been requested to order an investigation by the central agency into the murder of TMC leader Bhadu Sheikh, claiming that the two incidents were linked.
“The report submitted by the CBI before this Court today prima facie suggests that brutal incident of burning and killing at Bogtui village is the direct fall out of killing of Bhadu Sk son of Marfat Sk of village Bogtui at 8.30 P.M. on the same day. It also suggests that the incident is outcome of the rivalry amongst the members of two groups in the village and that burning of the houses resulting into death of 8 persons was retaliatory plan,” the high court noted in its order.
Eight people, including two children, were charred to death as nearly a dozen huts were set ablaze in Bogtui villageon March 21 in a suspected fallout of the murder of BNhadu Sheikh — a Trinamool Congress leader and deputy chief of the local panchayat.