The Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, ordered a probe by the CBI into the alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl in Nadia district of West Bangal.
The court directed the police to submit all documents related to the case to the CBI.
According to media reports, the court asked the investigating agency to furnish its report in the case in the next hearing.
Petitioner's lawyer Anindya Sundar Das had prayed for a CBI probe on the claim that the accused is the son of a panchayat leader belonging to the ruling Trinamool Congress.
It was alleged that the girl had, on April 4, gone to the birthday party of the accused at his residence in Hanskhali and was drugged before being raped. She died a day after allegedly owing to bleeding.
A complaint was lodged on April 9 at Hanskhali police station by her family members who had remained mum about it allegedly owing to threats and pressure from the accused and his kin, according to the petition.
The girl was allegedly cremated in the village crematorium without post-mortem examination or a death certificate.
That the police came to know about the incident nearly a week after its occurrence showed the force failed to act properly, Das claimed.
The police submitted the case diary in the matter before the division bench, also comprising Justice R. Bharadwaj.
On Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed doubt about the cause of the girl's death and wondered if the Class IX student of Hanskhali in Nadia district died after a fall after being slapped by someone. Asserting that the victim had an affair with the accused, a TMC leader's son who was arrested, Banerjee wondered if she was pregnant.
—With PTI inputs
