Team News Riveting
Kolkata, September 1
The West Bengal government has moved the Supreme Court to challenge the order of the Calcutta High Court directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into post-poll violence in the state in May this year.
Meanwhile, the CBI on Tuesday had registered 10 more cases related to the alleged post-poll violence in West Bengal, taking the total number of such cases to 31. Of the offences, six pertain to allegations of murder, two are of alleged gang rape and rape and the rest are related to assault, trespassing, and destruction of property, officials said.
“The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered ten more cases in compliance of the orders of Hon’ble High Court at Calcutta, passed in connection with WPA(P) 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149 & 167 of 2021, dated 19.08.2021 and taken over the investigation of these cases, earlier registered in different police stations of West Bengal on various allegations,” CBI Spokesperson RC Joshi had said.
The High Court directives came after the NHRC committee submitted its report on the violence in the state after assembly election results were announced on May 2. Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress had recorded a thumping victory over its main rival the BJP in a bitterly fought eight-phase electoral battle.
The cases registered by the agency include the murder of a resident of Jagdhari village whose body was found in a paddy field, an alleged gang rape in Birbhum district and an alleged murder in the Ramnagar market in South 24 Parganas district.
The TMC return to power was followed by large-scale violence in the state reportedly targeting the BJP workers and sympathisers.
