Post-poll violence: CBI quizzes TMC workers in Birbhum

Bolpur: The CBI on Monday night questioned some Trinamool Congress workers for nearly 30 minutes at the party office in Birbhum’s Ilambazar, hours after it arrested one Dilip Midiya in connection with the alleged May 2 murder of BJP worker Gaurav Sarkar.
An agency team returned to the party office on Tuesday morning, “collected more information” and asked village-level Trinamool worker Rabi Murmu to meet CBI officers in Durgapur, West Burdwan.
Trinamool’s Illambazar block president Fazlul Rahman said the CBI team came to the party office to collect information about workers in Gopalnagar village. Another local Trinamool leader, Babar Ali, said the investigators asked for a few phone numbers and details of Gopalnagar booth committee members.
“They asked us to compile the information,” Rahman said and added: “We will cooperate with the agency, but we think that this is a conspiracy to malign our party. This is a BJP ploy.”
BJP’s district unit president Dhruba Saha said: “We have lodged a complaint, but will never interfere with investigations. Let the law take its own course.”