New Delhi: The CBI has filed a chargesheet towards 5 individuals within the killing of Tapan Kandu, Congress councillor from Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal, officers mentioned on Tuesday.
In its chargesheet filed earlier than Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace, Purulia, the CBI has named Dipak Kandu, Kalebar Singh, Naren Kandu, Md Asik and Satyaban Pramanik as accused.
The CBI had taken over the investigation of the case from the West Bengal Police on April 6, 2022, on the orders of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom.
It was alleged that Tapan Kandu was shot useless by three motorcycle-borne individuals close to his residence in Jhalda round 5.15 pm on March 13 when he was returning with associates from a night stroll via Bagmundi Highway, CBI Spokesperson RC Joshi mentioned.
Kandu had collapsed and was rushed to Jhalda Hospital and from there he was taken to Ranchi Hospital, the place he was declared useless.
Justice Rajasekhar Mantha had directed the central company on April 4 to submit a report on its investigation within the case in 45 days.
The excessive courtroom had ordered the probe by the central company on the petition of councillor’s widow Purnima Kandu who had moved it in search of a CBI investigation within the homicide of her husband, alleging complicity of native police within the case.
Her counsel had submitted earlier than the courtroom that the superintendent of police of Purulia district, in a press convention, had given a clear chit to the inspector in-charge of Jhalda police station even earlier than the probe by the state police was accomplished.
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