CID probe ordered

KOLKATA, JAN. 8. Giving in to pressure by the Trinamool Congress- led Opposition, the State Left Front Government today ordered a CID probe into the alleged massacre of 11 people at Garbeta in Midnapore district.

Announcing the CID probe, the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, told presspersons here that the police had recovered a number of empty cartridges, bullet heads, pipe bombs, remnants of improvised firearms, one bloodstained muffler and found blood-stains on the soil.

He said a clash in the area could not be ruled out and added that sniffer dogs and forensic experts had gone to the village.

The Opposition parties' allegation was being seriously looked into but ``none of the 11 persons alleged to be missing/dead could be found either in their houses or elsewhere. It was found during inquiry that all the 11 have been absconding for the last seven months as they were wanted in several criminal cases.''

``It was an incident of arson in a house, whose owner and family members are alright and no body has been found as yet'', Mr. Bhattacharjee said.

``What I told earlier, I am telling it still now. When Oppositions parties are continuing with their allegations, we have to give much importance to the matter.''Mr. Bhattacharjee ruled out a CBI inquiry saying ``I do not think CBI inquiry is at all required, since I have full trust on my police who have been asked to investigate the whole matter''.

- PTI

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