The high Court, in a corrected order issued on Monday, gave three days to the investigating officer in the Faizan Ahmed death case to hand over the case diary, evidence and other relevant materials to the new investigation team constituted by the court.
Ranajit Chatterjee, a lawyer representing the family of Faizan, a IIT Kharagpur student who was found dead on the campus in October last year, said they moved the prayer before Justice Rajasekhar Mantha on Monday for setting a deadline to expedite the probe.
Justice Mantha wrote in a corrected order on June 19: “At paragraph 11 (of the order dated June 14) after the first sentence the full stop shall be deleted in the fourth line and the expression ‘three days from date (June 19)’ shall be added”.
The first four lines of paragraph 11 of the June 14 order read: “Let the entire case diary, evidence and material collected by the existing investigating officer be handed over to Mr Jayaraman, (ADG headquarters, West Bengal) and his team."
The court had on June 14 constituted an “independent team” to investigate Faizan's death.
Dhritiman Sarkar, superintendent of police, West Midnapore, said: “We have handed the details to the team”. He did not say when the handover took place.