Bengal police not probing student killing impartially, says HC

The Calcutta high court expressed its displeasure at the investigation by West Bengal police into the killing of a college student at Sabang in Midnapore district saying the police were not acting in an impartial manner and arresting people in connection with the killing at its whim.

A division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, directed the police to file a comprehensive report in the form of an affidavit on the investigation done by it by September 28, when the matter will come up for hearing again.

Hearing a PIL seeking CBI investigation into the killing, the bench observed that it appeared that the investigating officers were trivialising the whole process and said it would consider appropriate measures if the police did not come up with satisfactory answers in its affidavit to be filed by next Monday.

Krishna Prasad Jana, a student of the college and reportedly a member of the Congress’ student wing Chhatra Parishad, was lynched during a clash with a rival group of students, allegedly owing allegiance to the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad, inside the college premises on August 7.