NIA team in Raipur to begin inquiry into Darbha incident

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The six-member team of NIA (National Investigation Agency) reached Raipur on Monday to begin the investigation into Darbha massacre that has stunned Chhattisgarh and nation. The team met the survivors of the deadly attack currently undergoing treatment in Ram Krishna Care Hospital.

Sources in the hospital informed that the team in the hospital interacted with every person who survived the deadly attack which left dead 24 persons including Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Party (CGPCC) President Nand Kumar Patel, Bastar Tiger Mahendra Karma along with 11 Congress party workers and VC Shukla still struggling for life in a hospital at Gurgaon.

The team members after reaching hospital first of all talked with the doctors and enquired about the condition of people admitted in hospital. “The NIA members discussed with every person to full possible extent and recorded every possible detail of the incident right from its beginning,” sources said.

Earlier the team visited Bastar and talked with Congressmen who were in the carcade of Parivartan Yatra and also visited the massacre spot. Meanwhile source in the police department informed that the NIA team has asked the state Director General of Police to present his report over the incident.

The team could investigate several points like, why was the returning rout of yatra turned. If the police department claimed that the way was properly guarded then where did they suddenly vanished at the Darbha ghat, why was Nand Kumar Patel and his son not executed in the fashion in which Karma was killed.

Meanwhile, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, RPN Singh said that a thorough probe will be undertaken into the incident

and the guilty would not be spared at

any cost.

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