Bengal Govt submits report on Nandigram BJP worker's murder case

The West Bengal government, on Friday, submitted its report on the murder of a BJP worker in Nandigram. The report was submitted before the Calcutta High Court.  The BJP's woman activist, Rotibala Ari, was allegedly killed by Trinamool workers in May.

Although the family members of the victim have demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and also approached the Calcutta High Court with a plea, the charge of the investigation continues to be with the state police.

The matter came up for hearing at the High Court’s division bench of Justice Amrita Sinha on Friday. The counsel of the state government presented a report on the status and progress of the investigation. Thereafter, the hearing on the matter was adjourned and will come again on July 23 after the court studies the report in detail.

Ari was murdered on May 23 in Nandigram, two days before the Lok Sabha polls were conducted in the Tamluk constituency in East Midnapore district, under which Nandigram is one of the seven Assembly constituencies. Suvendu Adhikari claimed that the killing was prompted by the inevitable fear of defeat in the Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency.