KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed the state-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to continue with the investigation into the unnatural death of student leader Anis Khan on the grounds that it would be “too premature” to form any opinion about SIT, directing a district judge to oversee the investigation and the process of exhuming Anis’s body, conducting a second autopsy and handing over his cellphone to the investigating team.
Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed the SIT to submit a progress report within two weeks, before the court heard the matter again on March 10. “This court would like to first evaluate the investigation of the SIT, the adequacy of which can only be determined thereafter,” Justice Mantha observed, three days after the court took suo motu cognizance of the matter.
