CBI files first charge sheet in its probe into post-poll violence cases

Kolkata: The CBI on Thursday filed a chargesheet, the first in its probe into post-poll violence cases, in the alleged murder of BJP worker Manoj Jaiswal in Nalhati, Birbhum. The agency also reached the Presidency Correctional Home to question the accused in the Abhijit Sarkar murder case.
In the chargesheet submitted before a Rampurhat court, CBI named two accused persons already arrested by the police.It also prayed to continue investigations against two more accused. Jaiswal, 38, had joined the saffron camp ahead of the assembly polls and was found dead near Nalhati’s Madhura village on May 2. The Rampurhat court also turned down the bail plea of one of the accused on Friday.
Public prosecutor Malay Mukhopadhyay said the agency interrogated an accused in the Kankartala murder case on Thursday and again sought the court’s permission for a psycho-analytic test of the accused. “It is quite obvious that they are working in a biased way,” he said.
The CBI has already registered 34 FIRs in its probe.
The agency visited Presidency Correctional Home to interrogate the accused held for the murder of Abhijit Sarkar, a BJP worker in Beliaghata. The investigators questioned the five accused on what happened that day which led to Sarkar’s murder. “The victim’s brother had named 10 persons in the FIR, of whom five have been arrested. We hope the CBI investigators are able to get to the bottom of the incident,” said Priyanka Tibrewal, lawyer of the victim’s brother, Biswajit.
Meanwhile, a former investigating officer of Sonarpur police station reached the CGO complex office of CBI on Friday. In Sonarpur, BJP worker Haran Adhikari was allegedly killed in post-poll violence.
The agency has summoned investigating officers of the 34 cases registered so far.