The ongoing battle between the CBI and West Bengal police over the mysterious death of Bogtui massacre lead accused Lalan Sheikh intensified on Sunday when the state’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) issued a notification to the state’s central authority.
Posted Date – 12:31 PM, Sunday – 12/18/22
Calcutta: The ongoing battle between the CBI and West Bengal police over the mysterious death of Bogtui massacre lead accused Lalan Sheikh intensified on Sunday when the state’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) issued a notification to the state’s central authority.
Sheikh died on the night of December 12 in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
It is understood that CID-West Bengal has sought answers to certain questions in a notification sent to Bogtui Holocaust Investigation Office Vilas Bala Madghut. In the notification, the state investigation agency requested an explanation for Lalan Sheikh’s death at the CBI Rampurhat camp office in Birbhum district.
The CID also asked Bogtui investigators for details of security arrangements at the Rampurhat camp office when the accused died on the night of December 12. Bogtui investigators were also ordered to submit all CCTV footage from the camp office to the CID.
According to sources, CBI officials were also asked to submit a report to the CID as soon as possible upon notification.
Recall that the FIR on Lalan Sheikh’s death case named seven CBI officers, which was first referred by Birbhum District Police and later CID-West Bengal took over the investigation. However, the CBI challenged the FIR in a bench of the Kolkata High Court, claiming it was politically motivated because Sushanta Bhattacharya, the agency’s investigator for the cattle smuggling scam in West Bengal, had no ties to the separate CBI team investigating. The Bogtui case, included in the FIR.
A single bench of Justice Jay Sengupta in the Kolkata High Court allowed CID-West Bengal to investigate but failed to take any cohesive action, including the arrest of any of the seven CBI officials named in the FIR.
