HC summons CID ADG to explain delayed probe into man's killing

The Calcutta High Court today asked a top CID official of the state to appear before it to explain the lack of progress in a killing during a stir over building a power grid sub-station at Bhangar in January this year.
Justice Joymalyo Bagchi asked the CID additional director general to appear before the court on May 10, the next date of hearing and to apprise him of the progress in the probe.
Justice Bagchi expressed displeasure at the CID's failure to arrest the accused persons in the killing of a man, who died of gunshot wounds during an agitation at Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district.

Observing that the killing took place in broad day light, the judge said those involved in the incident should be brought to book as early as possible.
Father of Mofizul Khan, who had died of gunshot wounds at Bhangar on January 17 during an agitation over setting up of a power grid sub-station, had moved the high court subsequently seeking a probe into the death by an independent agency other than the state police.
Khan's counsel Jayanta Narayan Chatterjee had submitted before the court that since the victim died in the firing by the police, the investigation should be done by an agency other than the state police or the CID.

The police had denied that it had resorted to any firing and claimed the death had occurred during clashes between two groups of agitators.
The CID told the court that the ballistic reports said the bullet which caused Mofizul's death was fired from an improvised gun.