TMC leader's murder case referred to division bench

A single judge of the Calcutta High Court today referred an application for CBI investigation into the murder of a Trinamool Congress leader and green activist, four years ago, to a division bench.
Justice Dipankar Dutta referred the application by Tapan Dutta's widow to a division bench as appeals against the acquittal of five accused persons in the murder were pending before the division bench presided by Chief Justice Manjula Chellur.
Both the state government and Pratima, Dutta's widow, had filed appeals against the acquittal of the accused by a trial court in 2014.
A Howrah trial court had acquitted the five accused noting that the CID investigation had failed to provide any evidence against them.

Dutta, vice-president of TMC's Bally-Jagachha block unit, was spearheading a movement to stop the filling up of 750-acre wetland Jaipur Beel when he was killed in May 2011.