Kolkata:
The Central Bureau of Investigation has named 21 people as accused in the Birbhum massacre, in which eight people were beaten and burnt alive earlier this week, triggering political furore. The list of accused is the same as that of the state police, sources said.
Around 20 people have been arrested after six women and two children — mostly of members of a single family — were locked in their homes and burnt alive by a mob at the Bogtui village near Birbhum’s Rampurhat town earlier this week. The attack was allegedly retaliation to the murder of a local Trinamool Congress leader, Bhadu Sheikh, who died in a bomb attack.
The CBI team has set up a temporary camp at a government guest house in Rampurhat. Led by senior officer Akhilesh Singh, the team has now split up and started work.
