Overview

• Justice Tirthankar Ghosh declined a plea to transfer the case to the CBI, remarking that such probes have become a “gallery show.”
• The court directed the West Bengal CID to form a DIG-led Special Investigation Team that includes officers from the homicide section and to take over from the local police.
• Investigators must file a progress report within one month, with the court setting September 25, 2025, as the deadline.
• The bench ordered that the sealed SSKM/IPGMER post-mortem report be handed to the CID and noted sharp differences with the district hospital autopsy that attributed the deaths to electrocution.
• Sujit Das, 23, and Sudhir Chandra Paik, 65, were found dead on July 12 at a Muharram event in Khejuri, with families alleging assault and police initially citing accidental electrocution; the judge said parties may approach a division bench if aggrieved.