West Bengal government on Tuesday told the Calcutta High Court that the search at student leader Anish Khan’s home was illegal. State’s Advocate General S.N. Mookherjee told Justice Rajasekhar Mantha, who is hearing a petition demanding a probe by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the mysterious death of the student leader said that the police raid was “unauthorised” and they should be punished for it.
During the proceedings in the Court, Justice Mantha asked what was the ground for bringing charges under Section 304(A) – causing death by negligence and not under Section 302 – attempt to murder. The Advocate General said “It was to apprehend Anish, but they [the policemen] did not know the reason behind the raid.”
28-year-old Anish Khan died in the early hours of February 19, soon after a group of police personnel barged into his house at Amta in State’s Howrah district. While Salem Khan, father of Anish Khan, has been claiming that the police personnel threw him off the second floor, according to the version of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the State government, it was an accident as Anish tried to flee after seeing the police.
