Birbhum violence: TMC leader Anarul Hussain, nine others at CBI camp for questioning
India Today
Local TMC leader Anarul Hossain, who was arrested by the police on Thursday, was taken to the CBI camp office from Rampurhat police station on Sunday and was interrogated by the agency's officers.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) brought 10 more accused in the Birbhum Rampurhat violence case, including local Trinamool Congress leader Anarul Hossain, to the CBI camp for questioning on Sunday.
Experts of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Delhi, who arrived here on Friday, collected samples from the place of occurrence in Bogtui village, which is almost deserted following the gruesome incident on the night of March 21.
CBI officers also visited the village near here, where eight people were charred to death after their houses were set on fire, in a suspected fallout of a local TMC panchayat leader's murder.
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Earlier, a state government formed SIT was conducting an enquiry.
Anarul Hossain, who was arrested by the police within hours of a directive by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday to hunt down all accused including her party workers and leaders, was taken to the CBI camp office from Rampurhat police station on Sunday morning and was interrogated by the agency's officers.
