KOLKATA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has begun probing the harassment of judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in West Bengal’s Malda district, will focus in its first preliminary report on whether the incident was driven by spontaneous public anger or was a pre-planned attempt to derail the ongoing judicial adjudication process.
The agency's initial findings, to be submitted to the Supreme Court next week, sources say, will focus on whether the incident was a result of the spontaneous public grievance because of the deletion of names of a large percentage of voters referred for judicial adjudication or whether there was any pre-planned method in orchestrating that grievance into the harassment of the judicial officers.
Already, the NIA team had started its investigation into the matter after reaching Kaliachak on Friday afternoon. Although the members of the investigating team have refrained so far from speaking to the media on the progress of the investigation, sources aware of the development say that currently they are collecting background information about the 35 persons accused so far in the matter, specially the mastermind Mofakkarul Islam and Maulana Shahjahan Ali, the All India Secular Front (AISF) candidate from Mothabari assembly constituency in the West Bengal assembly polls scheduled later this month.