HC losing hope on Bengal police?

CBI asked to probe most cases

Amid the rising incidents of rape and murders and not to forget the gruesome Birbhum bloodbath, the Calcutta High Court in the last couple of weeks has ordered CBI probe into at least seven cases.

The recent addition to the CBI list by Calcutta High Court has been the gangrape and murder in Hanskhali in Nadia district where a 14year-old girl was the victim and it may be noted that the accused is a TMC leader’s son and his friends. The girl later died early on April 5.

Though the state police had initiated the probe… the

High Court later ordered a CBI probe as according to the court, CBI probe was necessary since a TMC leader was “involved in the case” who, the honourable court thought might “influence” the probe otherwise.

In the recent Birbhum violence… where TMC block president Bhadu Seikh was murdered by a crude bomb following which at least 10

houses were torched killing nine people, including children was also handed over to the CBI.

Though the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) and visited Rampurhat where the incident took place, the High Court found some “discrepancies” and instructed the CBI to take up the probe and asked SIT not to investigate further.

Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava heard pleas for ordering a CBI probe into the murder of Bhadu Sheikh as well, claiming that the two incidents were interlinked.

The Calcutta High Court has ordered a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers in state-run schools through State Level Selection Test (SLST) and Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay also ordered CBI probe in recruitment of School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment. Justice Gangopadhyay had even asked former Education Minister Partha Chatterjee to visit the CBI office, where the division bench of the High Court had stayed for four weeks.

The Calcutta High Court had also ordered a CBI probe into the Congress councillor Tapan Kandu’s murder case, and even instructed that the Jhalda police should handover all case-related documents to the central agency.

Later, the murder eyewitness and close aide Niranjan Baishav committed suicide under mysterious circumstances and the HC instructed CBI to probe this case too claiming that the two deaths could be interlinked.

It is pertinent to mention in all these cases, the state government wanted the state police probe while the Opposition parties demanded CBI probe as according to them (Opposition), the state police works at the ‘behest’ of the ruling Trinamool Congress.