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Bengal post-poll violence probe: Former Calcutta HC Chief Justice Manjula Chellur to head SIT

| @indiablooms | Sep 03, 2021, at 08:11 pm

Kolkata/UNI: The Calcutta High Court Friday appointed its former Chief Justice Manjula Chellur as the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which the court set up to probe into the allegations of post-poll violence in West Bengal.

The five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, ruled that the SIT probe be monitored by the court and overviewed by a retired judge of the Supreme Court.

However, the bench has now appointed Chellur as the SIT head.

The court has already put in place a three-member SIT comprising senior IPS officers from the state.

On Thursday, the state government appointed ten IPS officers to assist SIT in probing into cases of arson and loot during the alleged post-poll violence in May, as mandated by the high court.

The CBI, which is probing into more serious crimes, like murder and rape, during post-poll violence, has, however, arrested two persons and registered 34 first information reports (FIRs).

On Thursday, the central agency filed its first charge sheet in connection with the murder of a Bharatiya Janata Party worker in the Birbhum district in May.

On Wednesday, the state government moved the Supreme Court against the high court order of a CBI probe.

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