"BJP Investigating Committee": Bengal In Supreme Court On Poll Violence

Negating the need for a special panel, Kapil Sibal said for cases like rape and murder, there is the CBI and for other events, there is a Special Investigative Team.

Members of the panel conducting inquiry into the cases of post-poll violence in Bengal have affiliation to the BJP, the state argued in the Supreme Court today, where it has challenged a Calcutta High Court order for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation and a Special Investigation Team. "Can you imagine these people have been appointed to collect the data? Is this a BJP investigating committee my Lords?" senior lawyer and former Union Minister Kapil Sibal told the court, arguing on behalf of the state. Negating the need for a special panel, Mr Sibal said for cases like rape and murder, there is the CBI and for other events, there is a Special Investigative Team. "If somebody had a political past and if he lands up in an official position -- by that very fact will we treat him to be biased?" questioned the two-judge bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose.