Violence Took Place In West Bengal On Ram Navami, NIA Investigating Case
Violence took place in West Bengal on Ram Navami, investigating NIA sought documents related to the case from the state government.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the Ram Navami violence in Bengal’s Howrah and Hooghly districts, on Wednesday, asked the state police for all the documents including a copy of the FIR related to the case.
Sources said a communiqué in this regard has been sent to the offices of the commissioners of Chandannagar Police Commissionerate and Howrah City Police.
A copy of this has also been sent to the office of the Additional Director General in charge of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the state police.
Although initially, the CID-West Bengal took over the investigation, on 27 April the Calcutta High Court ordered the investigation to be done by the NIA.
As per the information, the NIA has immediately sought the documents from the state police officials so that their officials can start the investigation at the earliest.
Meanwhile, sources in the state government said that the administration is mulling over the possibility of approaching the Supreme Court to challenge the Calcutta High Court division bench’s decision to direct an NIA probe into the matter.
Violence took place in West Bengal on Ram Navami: On April 27, Calcutta High Court directed the NIA to take over the investigation of the case.
Violence took place in West Bengal on Ram Navami.
A bench of Calcutta High Court Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmoy Bhattacharya also directed the state police to hand over all the documents related to the case to the NIA within the next two weeks.
Passing the order, the bench said that it was beyond the capability of the state police to find those who were responsible for the clashes or who instigated them and therefore a probe by a central agency was necessary.
Earlier, the bench had questioned the efficiency of the intelligence wing of the state police in dealing with stone-pelting from rooftops of houses in troubled areas.
The bench questioned the failure of the intelligence system to receive information about the accumulation of stones on the terraces.
