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LF Govt orders CID probe into Garbeta incident

Giving in to pressure by Trinamul Congress-led opposition, the Left Front government on Monday ordered a CID probe into the alleged massacre of 11 people at Garbeta in Midnapore district even as a National Democratic Alliance fact-finding team recommended a CBI investigation and said the state was a 'fit case' for imposition of President's rule.

Announcing the probe, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee told newspersons in Calcutta 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.

Bhattacharjee said 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'.

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