Bengal post-poll violence: CBI submits status report to high court

Agency to probe 39 of 64 cases referred to it by state police, also look into 27 of 29 rape complaints sent by NHRC

Test User Staging Published 04.01.22, 10:14 PM

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The CBI has submitted a status report to the Calcutta High Court on alleged violence in West Bengal following the assembly elections in April last year.

The CBI said the state police had referred 64 incidents to it in accordance with an order of a five-judge bench of the high court, which directed the agency to investigate heinous crimes of murder, rape and attempt to rape, while other cases related to post-poll violence were to be probed by a special investigation team of three senior IPS officers of West Bengal cadre.