NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, Supreme Court will take up a petition seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the murder of three BJP workers in West Bengal.In this case the petition has been filed by BJP leader and lawyer Gaurav Bhatia, who had sought a CBI probe into the matter.
While it is to be noted that during Tuesday’s hearing, Supreme Court lawyer Gaurav Bhatia had argued for a CBI investigation of the murders of the party workers. Here, Bhatia argued that “The brutal murder of three WB BJP workers is a fit case for CBI probe and if this case is not fit for a detailed investigation by CBI, then no case comes under the ambit of CBI probe”.
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Earlier it found that on May 30, an 18-year-old BJP worker named Tirlochan Mahato was found hanging from a tree in Purulia`s Balarampur district, and assume that it was not suicide but murder. Shortly after this incident, another BJP worker, Dulal Kumar was found dead in a similar manner in the same district, that increase surged of murder. On July 28, one more BJP leader, Shaktipada Sardar was hacked in West Bengal`s Diamond Harbour area.
In this entire incident, the deaths of three BJP leaders had sparked an outrage in the state with the BJP blaming the Trinamool Congress for the attack.However, the leaders of the ruling TMC rejected the allegations and denied any role in the killings. They attributed the killings to infighting within the BJP.
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