Kolkata:
Greater than 100 CBI officers crisscrossing Bengal to research post-poll violence on orders of the Calcutta Excessive Court docket have filed 28 circumstances to date, seven of them on Sunday.
Two individuals arrested on Saturday within the Nadia district have been despatched to judicial custody until tenth September.
The CBI has been tasked by the courtroom to probe probably the most heinous crimes of homicide, rape and try and rape that have been filed following Trinamool’s large win within the March-April elections in opposition to the BJP.
The 4 CBI groups – of over 20 officers led by a joint director – visited the properties and villages of complainants and victims in Burdwan, Birbhum, South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Cooch Behar districts on Sunday.
An aged girl was allegedly murdered by Trinamool-backed goons in mid-Might at Jamalpur in Burdwan district. The CBI group spoke to her household and neighbours concerning the incident.
In Birbhum district, the CBI is specializing in the alleged homicide of businessman Manoj Jaiswal. At Tufanganj in Cooch Behar district, the group stopped on the village of alleged homicide sufferer Shahidul Rehman. In South 24 Parganas, the group met the daddy of Raju Samanta, murdered allegedly by Trinamool-backed goons.
The CBI started the train in Bengal on Thursday, precisely per week after the Calcutta Excessive Court docket ordered it to research the circumstances of homicide, rape and tried homicide. The courtroom additionally arrange a Particular Investigation Group to probe circumstances like arson, loot and felony intimidation.
The Nationwide Human Rights Fee of India (NHRC), which the courtroom ordered to look at complaints of post-poll violence, had mentioned in its report that 1979 complaints have been obtained by it involving 15,000 victims.
The state police listed 1934 complaints and 1168 FIRs filed. However out of the 9,304 accused individuals named, only one,345 or 14 per cent have been arrested and on the time of the report being filed, 1,036 have been out on bail.
Which meant lower than 3 per cent of the named accused have been in jail in mid-July.
The report indicted the police for complicity with Trinamool-backed goons, failure to file FIRs, apathy in senior ranks.
The NHRC had visited 311 locations between 24 June and 10 July.
The Trinamool had dismissed the allegations by the NHRC as an try by the BJP, which governs on the centre, to focus on the state authorities.
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