The CBI has been reaching out to the districts to research post-poll violence.(Photo: PTI/File)
Sources mentioned senior lawyer Congress leaders Abhishek Manu Singhvi or Kapil Sibal will seem for the West Bengal authorities earlier than the apex courtroom.
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The West Bengal authorities on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court difficult Calcutta High Court verdict directing court-monitored CBI investigation into post-poll violence.
Sources mentioned senior lawyer Congress leaders Abhishek Manu Singhvi or Kapil Sibal would seem for the West Bengal authorities earlier than the apex courtroom. The CBI is within the means of submitting the case over considerations of not getting a good trial.
The CBI has been reaching out to the districts to research post-poll violence. A 3-member CBI crew went to Khejuri in East Midnapore once more to research allegations of gang-rape of a BJP employee. It is alleged that an try was made to kill a BJP activist by consuming pesticides after he was gang-raped on May 5. His home was even bombed. Officials additionally visited the place the place the bombing came about.
The central crew visited the jail in Suri, Birbhum and interrogated the accused.
Moreover, CBI officers spoke to the household of the BJP employee killed in Chakda in Nadia.
For the previous few days, the CBI crew has been speeding to totally different elements of the state to research the case.
However, questions have been raised concerning the probe performed by the court-ordered Special Investigation Team (SIT), accountable for investigating the opposite allegations.
Experts have famous that the SIT is but to be seen within the investigation course of and the matter has been introduced up by plaintiffs who’ve approached the High Court alleging the matter. One of the plaintiffs has alleged contempt of courtroom rule.
The bench of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal mentioned that the SIT was not working and the High Court was conscious of this. The courtroom will take essential steps, it mentioned.
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