Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court today ordered CBI probe in Rampurhat, Birbhum case. A division bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice R Bharadwaj told the CBI to file a progress report by April 7.
Six women and two children were locked in their homes and burnt alive by a mob on Tuesday at village Bogtui near Rampurhat town, after a local Trinamool Congress leader, Bhadu Sheikh, was killed in a crude bomb attack.
Charred bodies were found a day later, mostly belonging to one family.