Monday, May 16, 2022

West Bengal post-poll violence: CBI summons TMC MLA Paresh Pal

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday summoned Trinamool’s Beleghata MLA Paresh Pal to the agency’s CGO campus office in connection with the alleged murder of BJP worker Abhijeet Sarkar in central Kolkata’s Narkeldanga in post-poll violence. of May 2021.

Biswajit Sarkar, elder brother of the deceased Abhijit Sarkar, and his mother had repeatedly claimed that MLA Paresh Pal’s aides were involved in the murder.

Biswajit Sarkar alleged, “I have protested in front of the CBI office that the agency should take action against Paresh Pal who was directly involved in my brother’s murder. Agency officials have called me to discuss the issue.”

Meanwhile, the CBI on Wednesday summoned Paresh Pal for questioning in the murder case.

BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar said, “Abhijit was a victim of post-poll violence and was brutally murdered by the Trinamool Congress. Action should be taken against all the accused.”

Abhijit Sarkar, the first victim of the post-election violence in Bengal, was brutally murdered in front of his house in May 2021. The family found the body on September 9, four months after his alleged murder after two post-mortems and DNA tests. were conducted as per the orders of the Calcutta High Court.

In July last year, a five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court had ordered DNA test of Abhijit Sarkar, which was matched with samples collected from his brother Biswajit. Central Forensic Laboratory (

) was instructed to perform DNA matching.

On August 19, 2021, the Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI probe into all murder and rape allegations in connection with the post-election violence in Bengal. An SIT was constituted by a five-judge bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, comprising three former IPS officers.

Originally published at Pen 18

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