Calcutta, Sept. 24 (PTI): The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday told West Bengal’s police chief to hand over to the Central Bureau of Investigation a controversial murder case in which a leader of the ruling Trinamul Congress was blamed by the victim’s family but left untouched by the state machinery.
Justice Harish Tandon said the entire probe of the Parui murder case was tainted by extraneous interference, and directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by West Bengal’s director general of police to hand over all the material related to the case to the CBI.
The judgment was welcomed by Hridoy Ghosh, who has been fighting to pin down the killers of his father Sagar Ghosh, a village level leader who contested and won a panchayat election in 2013 as an independent after being denied a Trinamul ticket.
Sagar Ghosh’s family had named Trinamul’s Birbhum district chief Anubrata Mondal and 42 others as being behind the attack, in a village under Parui police station, with Mondal’s inflammatory speeches cited as the provocation.
The high court said Wednesday it will monitor the progress of the CBI probe.
The court rejected a prayer by state counsel Kalyan Bandopadhyay for a stay on the order to allow the state government to move an appeal.
Justice Tandon observed that the SIT had not investigated the matter in the way it should have and said its role had not been satisfactory.
The court was critical of the role of the DGP for having given a clean chit to political leaders who were accused of making inflammatory speeches a few days before the murder of Sagar Ghosh.
On Wednesday, the high court expressed its displeasure over the role of the state’s police chief, G.M.P. Reddy, and noted that he had not looked at video footage containing the speeches made by Mondal.
It also observed that it was not expected that the DGP would share a report with any officer or the government pleader when the court was monitoring the progress of the case.
The DGP had earlier told the court that the chargesheet was filed in the case before the sessions court in Suri without taking the leave of the court on advice from a government advocate.
Mondal was not named in that chargesheet.
The court had asked the DGP, who was summoned before it on September 4, as to whether he did not feel that the inflammatory speeches and the subsequent murder were related.
The DGP had told the court that the two cases were unrelated and that a separate investigation was on in connection with the speeches.
The high court had ordered the criminal investigation department of the state police to probe the murder after Ghosh's son moved court alleging bias by the district cops.
But the court was displeased with the progress of the CID, and directed the formation of an SIT headed by the DGP to investigate the matter.
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