By IANS,
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday took serious exception to the West Bengal government challenging a Calcutta High Court order asking the CBI to probe the Jan 7 violence in Netai village of West Midnapore district which left nine people dead and several injured.
“The highest judicial authority (chief justice of high court) in the state has ordered it (the probe) after going through the case records, still it doesn’t inspire confidence (in the state government),” an apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly.
“This is very unfortunate,” the court told senior counsel Mukul Rohtagi, who appeared for the West Bengal government.
The petition by the West Bengal government is aimed against the high court order of Feb 18.
The state government has challenged the high court order on the ground that the state police were already probing the case.