Within two days of the Calcutta high court expressing its shock at the non-submission of the post-mortem reports of former CPI(M) MLA Pradip Tah and party leader Kamal Gayen, a sub-inspector (SI) of the Burdwan police station was suspended on Sunday by the district police for his failure to “submit the post-mortem reports.”
Superintendent of police (Burdwan) S.M.H Mirza said that SI Durgadas Bhattacharya was suspended for not submitting the post-mortem reports of Tah and Gayen to the officer-in-charge of Burdwan police station. The two CPI(M) leaders were killed during a fierce clash with the Trinamul Congress activists at Dewandihi in Burdwan on February 22.
Mr Mirza added that the post-mortem reports were collected from the morgue of Burdwan Medical College and Hospital by constable Ajay Das who had handed it over to Mr Bhattacharya on February 22 itself. In other words, the post-mortems were conducted and a report completed on the very day the murders were committed. And still in the morning when the hearing began, the reports were not produced in the court.
He explained that the decision of the SI’s suspension was taken after the state home department ordered an inquiry which found him guilty. Significantly, the decision came into effect at a time the criminal investigation department (CID) has started a probe into the killings on the order of the Calcutta high court on March 2.
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Adarsh scam: ED likely to file case soon
Mumbai/New Delhi, March 4: Pulled up by the Bombay high court for its handling of the Adarsh Housing Society case, the Enforcement Direct-orate may soon register a money laundering case against various individuals in connection with alleged financial irregularities in sale of flats.
The Mumbai unit of the directorate has initiated a probe into the “benami” transactions and other financial deals done by various individuals of the society and has also begun to go through the FIR registered by the CBI in this case.
“A case under money laundering laws would be registered once the CBI FIR is gone through thoroughly.
“Some other facts are also being verified,” sources in the ED said.
The agency, meanwhile, has also requested the Bombay high court to allow its special director or the joint director based in Mumbai to present a status report in the case instead of the ED director on March 12, as directed by the HC on February 28.
The charge of ED chief is currently being held as “additional responsibility” by 1979-batch IAS officer in finance ministry Arvind Rajan since the incumbent Arun Mathur retired on February 29.
The HC had earlier rebuked the CBI and the ED for their handling of the Adarsh probe. — PTI