Basu happy with CBI probe into Rizwanur's death

KOLKATA: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu on Saturday expressed his satisfaction with the ongoing CBI inquiry into the Rizwanur Rehman death case and said that the West Bengal government's decision to withdraw the judicial inquiry was 'good, although a little late.'
    
"The CBI has started the inquiry under directions of the Calcutta High Court. This has to be supported all out. I have said how can a judicial inquiry go on simultaneously," Basu said on the sidelines of a book release function here.
    
Asked whether he was satisfied with the CBI inquiry, he said, "I have heard that the CBI is doing a good job. We shall have to wait for the report. The media in writing all kinds of things."
    
Asked to comment on the government's decision to compensate the victims of March 14 police firing at Nandigram, he said that the state government was considering demands of Trinamool Congress on condition that it would discuss with the administration to work out a peace process.
    
"I have heard that 1,000 of our supporters are still in relief camps. Trinamool Congress and some other parties are indulging in looting. We have raised Rs one crore as donations for those lodged in the relief camps. But how long can this go on," he said.