The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a CBI investigation into the murder of Trinamool Congress leader Bhadu Sheik🔜h after a petition on Thursday requested it, saying the violence in Bogtui villag𝕴e and the killing of Sheikh were interlinked.
The high court had🐷 earlier ordered a CBI investigation into the killings of the nine people at Bogtui viꩵllage.
The killings in Bogtui village, in which nine people including children were burnt to death in their houses, wer🍎e in apparent retaliation to Sheikh's death. Sheikh had died in an alleged crude bomb attack.
The high court bench, comprising Chief Justice Prakash Sh🐟rivastava and Justice R Bharadwaj, ordered the transfer of the murder case of Sheikh from the state police to the CBI for the purpose of a complete investigation.
The bench had on March ღ25 ordered that the probe into the March 21 violence at Bogtui be handed over to CBI from the West Bengal government-appointed special investigation team.
The state DGP had on March 22 s🎶aid that the violence at⭕ Bogtui took place within an hour of the murder of Sheikh, the deputy chief of the local panchayat.
The place of the m🐎urder of Sheikh is about a kiloꦯmetre away from Bogtui.
With PTI inputs
