The Calcutta High Court has ordered a CBI investigation into the Birbhum killings in which eight people were found dead. The court ordered the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the West Bengal government to hand over case papers and accused persons arrested to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

A bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice R. Bharadwaj directed the CBI to file a progress report by the next date of hearing of the matter, which is April 7. Eight people were burned to death in Bogtui village of Bengal’s Birbhum district in the suspected fallout of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) panchayat official’s murder. The bench had suo motu taken up the case of the incident.