Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) moved the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday after two of its officers got summons from the West Bengal police for questioning in the case of the violent mob attack on the central agency team during its raid and arrest of two Trinamul Congress workers at Bhupatinagar in East Midnapore last week in a 2022 crude bomb blast case.
The two NIA officers have been asked to appear at the Bhupatinagar police station on April 11 with their vehicle that was damaged in the attack. One of them was injured in the mob fury. He has been directed to bring his medical reports with him for scrutiny while another officer is the one who had lodged the complaint of the mob attack.
The NIA team also faces an FIR on molestation charge following a complaint by the wife of one of the arrested accused. Waking up to the summons and the FIR of molestation, the NIA moved the HC and sought permission to file a case against them. It's plea was accepted. Justice Jay Sengupta is likely to hear the matter.
In the evening the TMC claimed that superintendent of police (NIA) Kolkata Branch office, Dhan Ram Singh, whom it accused of taking money from BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari to conduct the raid, has been moved out of the city.
It posted on X-handle, “With our relentless pressure, @NIA_India has been forced to call SP Dhan Ram Singh, caught in cahoots with BJP's @JitendraAsansol, back to Delhi. Looks like the tainted officer is being transferred. BJP's stooges like him have no place in Bengal. *NIA-BJP = 0, Bengal = 1!*”
