Filed six FIRs over Bengal Ram Navami clashes, NIA tells HC

The NIA started probe into the matter on the orders of the HC after Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, had approached the court in the wake of communal clashes in Shibpur in Howrah, Sreerampur and Rishara in Hooghly and Dalkhola in Uttar Dinajpur.

On the day of the hearing on April 10, the NIA had told the HC that it was ready to investigate the incidents of violence. It was on April 27 that a division bench headed by the then Acting Chief Justice TS Shivagnanam and Justice Hiranmoy Bhattacharya ordered an NIA probe into the incidents of clashes and arson.

The bench had observed that it was not possible for the state police to know who were involved in the riots and who instigated them and hence an investigation by the central agency was required. The court had directed the state government to hand over all the documents related to the cases to the NIA within  two weeks.