CBI bullet hole in police story

The Telegraph - Calcutta
IMRAN AHMED SIDDIQUI
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Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had confided to his cabinet colleagues that not all Nandigram victims fell to police bullets, a minister said. The minister quoted Bhattacharjee as saying some people succumbed to “other kinds” of gunshot wounds and those inflicted by sharp weapons.

Nandigram, March 19: A handful of spent bullets could bore a gaping hole in the official Nandigram story.

Searches on the Nandigram battlefield and a squad of suspected CPM cadres have yielded the CBI bullets accessible only to security services but not used by police during Wednesday’s action.

The finding has prompted the investigative agency to refer in its preliminary report to the presence of outsiders who may have “participated” in the firing in which at least 14 people were killed.

The revelation also raises the disturbing question of how the ammunition, the supply of which is supposed to be stringently monitored and restricted, got into the hands of the suspects.

The recovery of .315 and .38 bore bullets from the spot as well as the seizure of similar rounds from the suspected CPM group at a brick kiln near Nandigram have led the CBI to conclude that these men could have been present during the firing.

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