CBI forms 4 teams to probe Bengal post-poll violence

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 20

The CBI has constituted four teams, each having seven members and headed by a joint director, to probe cases of post-poll violence in West Bengal.

Status report in six weeks

• The CBI teams will be headed by joint directors Ramnish, Anurag, Vineet Vinayak and Sampat Meena
• Every seven-member team will include a deputy inspector general and three superintendents of police
• The CBI teams and the SIT probing such cases will submit status reports to the HC within six weeks

Officials in the agency said the probe by individual teams would be monitored by CBI’s Additional Director Ajay Bhatnagar. The members of each team would include a deputy inspector general and three superintendents of police (SPs) from across the country.

Meanwhile, the CBI has written to the West Bengal Director General (DG) of Police to provide details of all cases of murder, attempt to murder and rape reported during the post-poll violence.

The agency has sought details of such cases from the DG in line with a Calcutta High Court order that directed the CBI to take over cases of murder, rape and crime against women.

The CBI’s four teams would be headed by joint directors Ramnish, Anurag, Vineet Vinayak and Sampat Meena.

The High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI inquiry into alleged cases of murder, rape and crime against women during the post-poll violence.

A five-judge Bench, while pronouncing a unanimous verdict on a batch of PILs seeking an independent probe into the incidents of post-poll violence, also ordered the formation of an SIT.

The SIT will include Suman Bala Sahoo, Soumen Mitra and Ranveer Kumar, all IPS officers of the West Bengal cadre.

The over-arching monitoring of the probe by the CBI and the SIT will be done by the HC Bench and the court has asked the two agencies to submit status reports in six weeks.