Netai, Feb. 25: A 12-member CBI team today visited Netai to probe the January 7 firing, a week after Calcutta High Court handed over the case to the central investigating agency.
The team, led by CBI joint director Keshav Kumar, arrived at the village around 9am, accompanied by ballistic experts from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory.
The team examined the cadre camp from which the shots were fired, bullet marks on a building opposite the base, and also spoke to villagers, including some of those who were injured in the firing.
The CBI officers entered the house of local CPM leader Rathin Dandapath, which used to double as the cadre camp, and inspected all the rooms. They measured the length, breadth and height of the building.
Shortly before the CBI team arrived, a large contingent of joint forces surrounded Netai and journalists were not allowed to enter the village. After the team left, one of the injured, Hansadhwaj Roy, told reporters that the CBI officers had asked him to recount his experience on the day of the firing.
“When I told him we had gone to protest the cadres’ atrocities, the CBI official questioning me (Arun Bothra) appeared not to believe me. He told me: ‘Yeh toh kahani hai, asli baat bataiye (this is a story, tell me the real thing).’ I told him that I was speaking the truth,” Hansadhwaj said.
Hansadhwaj, who had suffered a bullet injury in his right arm, said he narrated to Bothra how “bullets had been fired from Dandapath’s house”.
Around 12.30pm, another CBI team brought Abani Singh and Ashwini Chalak, the CPM leaders arrested in connection with the firing, to Netai and took them to the cadre camp. The villagers said the duo were taken around the house and also to the roof.
The CBI team left around 4.30pm.
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