Overview

• Justice Tirthankar Ghosh declined a transfer to the CBI, saying such a move would turn the case into a “gallery show.”
• The court directed the West Bengal CID to set up a Special Investigation Team led by a DIG and including homicide branch officers.
• The investigation was taken out of the local police station, with the SIT required to submit a progress report within one month.
• Two men, Sujit Das, 23, and Sudhir Chandra Paik, 65, were found dead after a Muharram programme in Khejuri’s Janka area in July.
• Post-mortem findings conflict, with a district hospital citing electrocution and a later SSKM/IPGMER autopsy noting assault marks, which the court said could mislead the probe.