Acting fast after taking charge the CBI, investigating the graver offences post Assembly elections on Friday submitted a second chargesheet, this time in a North 24 Parganas murder case where a BJP supporter JP Yadav was bombed to death on June 6 by alleged Trinamool Congress miscreants.
This is the second chargesheet filed in two consecutive days with the first one being filed by the Central Agency in a Rampurhat murder case in Birbhum district.
“Four persons have been named in the chargesheet,” a CBI source said adding more investigations were being conducted against other persons who had been named by the complainants.
The CBI is acting upon the orders of the Calcutta High Court which earlier directed a two-pronged probe deputing the central agency to investigate the graver offences whereas asking a Special Investigating Team of the State police to inquire into other offences.
In a related development former Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Manjula Chellur had agreed to supervise the SIT investigation into the “other” post poll “offences.” According to sources unavailability of a retired Supreme Court Judge, for supervising the SIT probe — as was directed by the High Court — Justice Chellur was appointed for the task.
More than a hundred cases of murder, loot, rape and arson was reported post Assembly elections that saw Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress roaring back to power for the third time in a row.
In the post poll violence an allegation of which was summarily rejected by the Chief Minister hundreds of BJP, Left, Congress and Trinamool Congress workers were attacked and their properties looted leading the Opposition BJP and the Left to raise demands for impartial probe accusing the State police of active connivance with the ruling party assailants.
Meanwhile, the TMC leadership which had already filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the High Court order continued to react strongly wondering why only the SIT and not the CBI was being monitored by the judiciary.
“Everyone knows how all the institutions have been saffronised by the BJP— from CBI to EC to NHRC and others —in that case where is the guarantee that the CBI will not conduct biased investigation … CBI’s bias is a well-known fact so why only the SIT and not the CBI will be monitored by the Court,” Sukhendu Shekhar Roy TMC Rajya Sabha MP said.