On Thursday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made its first arrest in the recent killing of eight people in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.
The news agency PTI says that a team of six CBI officers went to Mumbai and arrested four people on Thursday morning. By giving them a “transit remand,” they will be brought to the Rampurhat court, where the CBI will try to get them.
As soon as a judge in the city of Calcutta said that the CBI should take over the investigation into the killing of eight people in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, the CBI filed several cases on Friday.
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On March 21, some people set fire to 10 houses in the village of Bogtui, killing at least eight people, many of them women and children. The CBI has to take over the investigation into this case from the state police and give a progress report at the next hearing.
The Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CSFL) unit of the CBI went to the crime scene to get evidence. One of the leaders of the TMC, Anarul Hossain, has been arrested in connection with the case. He said that he had turned himself in.
When Mamata Banerjee told the police to look for the TMC leader in connection with the killings, they said they should look for Hossain outside a hotel.
Bhadu Sheikh, a Trinamool Congress leader in the village of Bogtui, was killed on March 21. A mob set fire to several houses in the village, killing at least eight people in what is thought to have been a revenge attack.
