The CBI took over the probe into the killing of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath, officials said on Tuesday.
The agency constituted a seven-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), comprising seasoned officers from multiple states, to probe the killing that rocked the state two days after the BJP won a landslide mandate in the assembly elections.
The central probe agency has also re-registered the FIR earlier lodged by the police, they said, adding that a DIG-rank officer is heading the SIT.
Rath was shot dead in Madhyamgram’s Doharia Lane, around 7 km from Kolkata airport, on the night of May 6.
