Sex assaults: PILs in HC seek CBI probe

Kolkata: Advocate Pallabi Chatterjee, along with 11 other women advocates, on Monday filed a PIL in the Calcutta High Court seeking a CBI probe into four rape and sexual assault cases that were reported in Bengal within the span of one week. The advocates drew the attention of Chief Justice

Prakash Shrivastava

to the crimes that had taken place in Jalpaiguri’s Maynaguri, Paschim Midnapore’s Pingla, Birbhum’s Santiniketan and Siliguri.BJP filed a separate PIL for a CBI investigation into the Namkhana rape case in

South

24 Parganas.Counsels for the petitioners pleaded for an urgent hearing on Tuesday. CJ

Shrivastava

didn’t schedule a date but said that the court would consider the prayer.