“Generally a deputy magistrate conducts such an inquiry but as this case is a serious one, a senior magistrate will do the job,” said Cooch Behar District Magistrate R K Sinha on Saturday. The name of the senior magistrate to be entrusted with the task will be finalised after consultation with the higher authorities, Sinha added.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had ordered an administrative inquiry into the firing that claimed lives of five FB supporters. The district administration had filed FIRs against 57 people. “Forty of them have been arrested and are now in judicial custody,” said Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar.
DSP (Crime) Meghlal Sarkar was transferred as the PA to the IGP (north Bengal) in Siliguri and Dinhata Inspector-in-Charge Sudhanshu Roy has been transferred to the District Intelligence Bureau (DIB). The two police officers were on duty at Dinhata on February 5.