HC asks CBI to form SIT to probe jeweller's murder

The Calcutta High Court today directed the CBI to constitute a special investigation team (SIT) headed by a joint director to hasten the probe into the murder of a jeweller nine years ago.
Hearing a petition filed by the brother of the deceased seeking directions to CBI, which has been investigating the murder since 2009, for speeding up the probe, Justice Samapti Chatterjee directed the agency to form an SIT.
The SIT would be headed by a joint director of the agency, Justice Chatterjee said.
The court ordered CBI to file a report on progress of the investigation on February 24, 2017, when the matter would be taken up for hearing again.

In 2007, Sukanta Ghosh, a jeweller of Barrackpur in North 24 Parganas district, was murdered. His brother Amit Ghosh moved the high court seeking a CBI probe, claiming that the state police was not properly conducting the investigation.
The matter was handed over to CBI for investigation in 2009.
Amit moved the high court again yesterday praying for a direction to CBI to expedite the probe.