The Calcutta Excessive Court docket on Thursday ordered formation of a particular investigation crew (SIT) to research the alleged rape and homicide of a minor woman at Kaliaganj in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district on April 20.
Listening to a petition filed by the sufferer’s father, Justice Rajasekhar Mantha ordered formation of the SIT comprising a retired extra director of the CBI, a former IG-rank officer of the West Bengal Police and a particular commissioner of Kolkata Police to research the unnatural demise of the 17-year-old.
The courtroom directed that retired CBI officer Upen Biswas, who had headed the fodder rip-off case probe, former IG Pankaj Dutta and particular commissioner (I) of Kolkata Police, Damayanti Sen, will comprise the SIT.
The crew will conduct the probe beneath the direct supervision of the Excessive Court docket, the decide stated.
Justice Mantha additionally issued an embargo on the SIT members to not focus on something associated to the case in public area.
Each Biswas and Dutta seem commonly on tv information channels and goal the state authorities throughout debates.
Whereas passing the order, Justice Mantha additionally authorised the SIT to rearrange for a second post-mortem of the sufferer if the crew members deem that to be essential. He additional directed the state police at hand over all of the paperwork associated to the case, together with the case diary, to the SIT on the earliest. The police have additionally been directed to current their preliminary investigation report within the matter earlier than the subsequent date of listening to scheduled on June 28.
The bench additionally directed the police to make safety preparations for the sufferer’s household.