A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday reserved judgement on an appeal by the West Bengal government against CBI probe order on Parui murder case by a single bench after conclusion of hearing in the matter.
A division bench of Justice Jayanta Biswas and Justice IC Das directed all parties in the matter to file written submission, if any, by November 17 after oral submissions were concluded. The judgement will be delivered on a later date.
Justice Harish Tandon had on September 24 directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by the West Bengal DGP, to hand over all material related to the case to CBI while expressing displeasure at the role of the DGP and the way the probe was handled by the SIT.
The case pertains to the murder of Sagar Ghosh, who had in 2013 fought panchayat elections as an Independent candidate in Birbhum district in West Bengal. Justice Tandon had directed that "CBI shall investigate all aspects of the case related to the killing of Sagar Ghosh and file the report from time to time to the court concerned having jurisdiction.
"With utmost promptness, the court having jurisdiction shall pass necessary orders from time to time on the basis of the reports filed by CBI depending upon the outcome of the investigation," he directed while delivering his judgement in a plea for an impartial probe into the case.
Trinamool Congress Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal is among 41 people named in the FIR lodged by Ghosh's wife. Mondal, however, was not named in the chargesheet filed by the SIT before the district court in Suri.
Mondal was accused of making inflammatory speeches at public meetings near Ghosh's residence a few days before the fatal attack on Ghosh. Ghosh was shot at his home in Badnabagram village under Parui police station in Birbhum's Kasba on the night of July 21, 2013, and succumbed to injuries two days later.
The high court had ordered a CID probe into the murder after Ghosh's son Hridoy moved court seeking an independent probe into the matter upon claims that the district police was acting in a biased manner.
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