NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made the primary arrests within the Birbhum killings, through which 9 individuals in Bogtui village have been burnt alive of their properties on March 21. The company arrested 4 suspects from Mumbai on Thursday, reported PTI quoting the official.
The 4 accused had fled from Bogtui to the Maharashtra capital quickly after the killings, and so they have been apprehended from their hideout early on Thursday morning.
“Of the 4 arrested accused, two individuals — recognized as Bappa and Shabu Sheikh — have been named within the FIR lodged in reference to the killings. We’ll produce them earlier than a courtroom in Mumbai and plea for a transit remand to West Bengal,” he mentioned.
The Calcutta excessive courtroom had ordered a CBI inquiry into the violence through which miscreants had attacked and set hearth to homes in Birbhum’s Bogtui village, killing 9 folks, together with kids, following TMC panchayat official Bhadu Sheikh‘s homicide.
Earlier, an SIT fashioned by the West Bengal authorities was probing the case.
The TMC panchayat official’s homicide, nonetheless, is being investigated by the district police.
In keeping with the official, Sona Sheikh, needed by the police for his involvement in an area dispute, had been on the run for over a 12 months.
(With inputs from companies)
The 4 accused had fled from Bogtui to the Maharashtra capital quickly after the killings, and so they have been apprehended from their hideout early on Thursday morning.
“Of the 4 arrested accused, two individuals — recognized as Bappa and Shabu Sheikh — have been named within the FIR lodged in reference to the killings. We’ll produce them earlier than a courtroom in Mumbai and plea for a transit remand to West Bengal,” he mentioned.
The Calcutta excessive courtroom had ordered a CBI inquiry into the violence through which miscreants had attacked and set hearth to homes in Birbhum’s Bogtui village, killing 9 folks, together with kids, following TMC panchayat official Bhadu Sheikh‘s homicide.
Earlier, an SIT fashioned by the West Bengal authorities was probing the case.
The TMC panchayat official’s homicide, nonetheless, is being investigated by the district police.
In keeping with the official, Sona Sheikh, needed by the police for his involvement in an area dispute, had been on the run for over a 12 months.
(With inputs from companies)