Birbhum, 25/3: The Calcutta high court on Friday ordered a CBI investigation into the Birbhum killings in which eight people, including two children, were charred to death earlier this week.
The court directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the West Bengal government to hand over case papers and accused persons arrested by it to the central probe agency.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice R. Bharadwaj directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a progress report by April 7, the next date of hearing of the matter.
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