CBI Names 21 In Birbhum Killings Case, Says ‘Houses Burnt With View To Kill People’

Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named 21 people in its FIR in connection with the violence in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. Eight persons, including children, died after miscreants allegedly set around 10-12 houses on fire in Birbhum’s Bogtui village.

The accused have been named under Sections 147, 148, 149, and other Sections in the FIR on suspected offence of armed rioting, ANI reported.

Earlier in the day, officers of the probe agency’s forensic team reached Bogtui village of Rampurhat to investigate the matter.

A 15-member CBI team, including CFSL experts from Delhi, led by a DIG rank officer, joined the Birbhum murder case, which is monitored by a Joint Director level officer.

Earlier on Friday, the Calcutta High Court handed over the Birbhum violence case to the CBI and asked the state government-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to stop its probe and hand over all the documents and those arrested to the central agency.

Stating that CBI has been given “full cooperation”, the high court directed the probe agency to file a preliminary inquiry report on April 7 during the next hearing.

Eight people, including two children, were charred to death earlier on Tuesday after a mob set houses on fire in Bogtui village in Birbhum district following the killing of local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Bhadu Sheikh.

(With Agency Inputs)

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