The CBI on Monday submitted its second progress report into the April 4 incident of rape and death of a minor at Hanskhali in Nadia before the Calcutta High Court division bench headed by Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava in a sealed cover.

CBI advocate Bilwadal Bhattacharya told the court that a part of the forensic report was yet to reach the investigators and they sought more time to complete the probe.

A lawyer brought to the attention of the bench that a member of the BJP’s fact-finding committee had violated SC guidelines by naming the raped girl in public.

“After the Nirbhaya case, the apex court banned declaring names of rape victims. The court should draw up proceedings against the BJP’s fact-finding committee member,” the lawyer said. The bench also said names of rape victims cannot be declared in public.

A plea to transfer the Hanskhali case to a court outside Nadia was filed on Monday. The bench said it would be considered later.

The high court also made it clear that it had faith in probes by the state police into recent cases of alleged rape and gang-rape in some parts of the state and declined appeals for CBI probes into them.

The division bench headed by Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava, however, kept the demand for a CBI probe into the rape case at Moynaguri in Jalpaiguri open and asked family members of the victim to file an affidavit in regard to their prayer by May 20.

Bogtui case

The CBI placed the status report of the Bogtui massacre case, along with a report in the Bhadu Sheikh murder case, on Monday. Both the reports were filed in sealed covers and the contents were not made public.

Reports placed

Preliminary reports into rapes cases at Matia in South 24-Parganas, English Bazar in Malda, Deganga in North 24-Parganas and Bansdroni in Calcutta were placed before the division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj of Calcutta High Court.

Special police commissioner of Calcutta Damayanti Sen has been monitoring the cases on the basis of an earlier order of the court. The counsel appearing for the 11-year-old Matia girl informed the court that streetlights Matia remained off at the night and criminals took advantage of it.

The division bench directed the state to file detailed status reports on streetlights in rural Bengal.