New Delhi: The BJP fact-finding team has urged the party leadership to request the Centre for a CBI inquiry in the killings in Birbhum district of West Bengal claiming that the village is still deserted as people fear for their lives if they return.
The strongly-worded BJP report drew sharp reaction from Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who said the document would “weaken and interfere” with the CBI probe in the case. “The BJP report on Bogtui killings will weaken and interfere with the probe. I condemn this attitude of the saffron party,” Mamata was quoted as telling reporters in Darjeeling.
The team comprising Rajya Sabha MP and former Uttar Pradesh police chief Brajlal, Lok Sabha MP and former Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh, Rajya Sabha MP and former IPS officer K C Ramamurthy, a national spokesperson for the party, former West Bengal cadre IPS officer Bharati Ghosh and state BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar, visited the village where eight people including women and children were burnt to death in alleged reprisal over the murder of a local TMC leader.
