Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ruled out a CBI probe into the death of Raiganj BJP activist Anup Kumar Roy but directed the state government to conduct a fresh post-mortem of the body at RG Kar Medical College in Calcutta.

Anup, 23, had allegedly died in police custody on September 2, a few hours after his arrest in a case related to snatching.

Anup’s name had cropped up during police interrogation of some youths in an August 28 snatching case. The cops had claimed that during interrogation, they had come to know that Anup, a resident Nandangram of Itahar, had been the “mastermind” in that snatching case.

After Anup’s death within some hours of his arrest, Biswajit Lahiri, president of BJP North Dinajpur district committee, had alleged: “He was beaten to death in custody.”

Anup’s mother Geeta Roy had lodged a complaint at Itahar police station against five policemen — Nihar Ranjan Das, Md Murtaza, Prabir Ghosh, Sandip Chakraborty and Uttam Modak — of Raiganj.

After the first post-mortem that was “hurriedly done”, Geeta had appealed to the Raiganj district court in early September for a fresh video-recorded autopsy of her son’s body in the presence of a magistrate.

On the basis of her appeal, the court had ordered a repeat of the post-mortem.

Following Wednesday’s high court’s order, a third post-mortem would have to be conducted on Anup’s body, the state panel lawyer said.

The high court also directed the state government to start a fresh magisterial inquiry into Anup’s death.