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The CID on Friday filed chargesheet at a court against 58 accused, including jailed former West Bengal Minister Sushanta Ghosh, in the Garbeta skeleton recovery case.
Besides the former Minister, his arrested ex-personal secretary Debashis Pyne has also been named in the chargesheet, which was filed within three months of Ghosh’s arrest.
Sixteen of the 58 persons named in the chargesheet are already behind bars, while the remaining including CPI(M)’s Paschimbanga Krishak Sabha general secretary Tarun Roy, Keshpur zonal secretary Imtiaz Ali and the former Minister’s brother Prashanta Ghosh have not been arrested so far, the CID informed.
The probe agency prayed to the CJM court to issue arrest warrants against all the 42 and order attachment of their properties if they fail to turn up.
Seven skeletons were dug up from a pit near Ghosh’s ancestral house in Benachapra village in West Midnapore district on June 22. The ex-Minister was arrested by CID on August 11.
Trinamool Congress had alleged that the bodies of its supporters, who died in a firing incident on September 22, 2002 at Piyasala village, were carted away by CPI-M cadre and buried at the spot.
Ghosh had been arrested on charge of complicity in the murders of Trinamool workers.
The CID counsel said following receipt of the forensic report of two of the seven skeletons (which is yet to come) a Supplementary Arms Act chargesheet could be submitted later.
The CJM court on September 19 extended Ghosh’s judicial custody for 43 more days in connection with the case and ordered authorities to produce him before the court on October 31. Bail pleas of six others accused in the case were rejected and the court extended also their custody.
On the same day Ghosh, charged with complicity in murder of Trinamool Congress supporters in 2002, moved the Calcutta High Court seeking bail in the case, which adjourned the prayer till Monday.
Besides the former Minister, his arrested ex-personal secretary Debashis Pyne has also been named in the chargesheet, which was filed within three months of Ghosh’s arrest.
Sixteen of the 58 persons named in the chargesheet are already behind bars, while the remaining including CPI(M)’s Paschimbanga Krishak Sabha general secretary Tarun Roy, Keshpur zonal secretary Imtiaz Ali and the former Minister’s brother Prashanta Ghosh have not been arrested so far, the CID informed.
The probe agency prayed to the CJM court to issue arrest warrants against all the 42 and order attachment of their properties if they fail to turn up.
Seven skeletons were dug up from a pit near Ghosh’s ancestral house in Benachapra village in West Midnapore district on June 22. The ex-Minister was arrested by CID on August 11.
Trinamool Congress had alleged that the bodies of its supporters, who died in a firing incident on September 22, 2002 at Piyasala village, were carted away by CPI-M cadre and buried at the spot.
Ghosh had been arrested on charge of complicity in the murders of Trinamool workers.
The CID counsel said following receipt of the forensic report of two of the seven skeletons (which is yet to come) a Supplementary Arms Act chargesheet could be submitted later.
The CJM court on September 19 extended Ghosh’s judicial custody for 43 more days in connection with the case and ordered authorities to produce him before the court on October 31. Bail pleas of six others accused in the case were rejected and the court extended also their custody.
On the same day Ghosh, charged with complicity in murder of Trinamool Congress supporters in 2002, moved the Calcutta High Court seeking bail in the case, which adjourned the prayer till Monday.
