Mob of over 100 ransacked homes, set ablaze houses to kill families’, says CBI’s Birbhum FIR

Kolkata/ Bogtui: An unruly mob of over 100 stormed into Bogtui village within an hour of local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Bhadu Sheikh’s murder on 21 March, says the seven-page first information report (FIR) filed by the Rampurhat Police that night, when eight people were burned to death in the village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.

The case has now been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after an order

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