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Singur factory guards under scanner
CBI, probing the Tapasi Malik rape and murder case in Singur, have zeroed in on two night guards and a canteen employee.
CBI on Sunday issued fresh summons to nightguards Bhanu Hambir and Monu Hambir, and Krishna Barik - a CPM supporter who works with the temporary canteen at the Tata Motors site.
They have all been asked to report to the CBI's Salt Lake office on Monday. The two nightguards were interrogated on Friday, a day before Debu Malik, the prime accused in the Tapasi Malik case, was produced in the Chandernagore court. Now that Debu's lawyer has claimed that his client was forced to make the confession statement before the magistrate, the agency is going a whole hog to collect evidence to corroborate the charges brought against Debu Malik and CPM's former Singur zonal secretary Suhrid Datta. CBI lawyer Partha Tapaswi had earlier said that the murder was engineered by Datta.
On December 20 - two days after the murder - when a CBI team, led by special crime branch SP A K Sahay, visited the spot, some villagers had named these two nightguards and the canteen employee. But since then, not many people had come forward to support that claim.
Later, CBI officials again came across the names of these nightguards from the duty roster they got from Apurba Banerjee, deputy general manager of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC).
Investigating officers are banking on the statements of these nightguards, who were on duty on December 18, as also that of Krishna Barik, the casual canteen employee, who, interestingly, was present there at the canteen on that night. The canteen is situated on the factory premises and it is not impossible that Krishna might have witnessed the murder, CBI sources said.
Earlier, the investigating agency had recorded the statements of 23 trekker operators from the area. It had also grilled local promoter Sailendra Sahana, and some local CPM leaders, including Tapan Mitra and Dibakar Das.
CBI is now scanning the statements to verify the role of the accused before it submits the chargesheet.
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