The Supreme Court on July 24 refused to interfere with a Calcutta High Court order upholding the Centre’s decision to assign Ram Navami violence cases in West Bengal to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said the six FIRs, registered across four police stations between March 30 and April 3 this year, would be investigated by the NIA. The Bench made it clear that the contours of the NIA probe would neither be restricted nor ascertained by the courts.
