New Delhi: CBI on Saturday starts probing the police action in Nandigram that claimed 14 lives.
Following a tip off, the CBI team raided a brick kiln inside Nandigram and recovered heavy cache of arms and ammunitions.
They arrested 10 people from the Nandigram brick kiln and recovered nine rifles and five pistols including a foreign made one from their possession. Helmets, binoculars and CPM flags are also recovered from the brick kiln.
The CBI team inspected several areas of Gokulnagar village and dug up soil at some places to ascertain whether any body or arms had been buried there.
The investigating team, accompanied by forensic experts, dug up the ground at Gokulnagar following claims by villagers that bodies and arms were buried there.
Gokulnagar is located close to Sonachura, where most of the casualties occurred during the police action on March 14.
The team later went to Tamluk Hospital and spoke to a number of persons injured on Wednesday.
They enquired from them about the circumstances under which they were wounded and that what they were doing then. The people were also asked who, according to them, caused their injuries.
The team had yesterday visited Sonachura village in Nandigram block and marked bloodstained spots and collected spent bullets.
A three-member CBI team from New Delhi, joined by the agency's regional officials and local officers reached the troubled villages, about 175 km from Kolkata, on Friday to begin its investigation following a directive from the Calcutta High Court.
The team visited Khejuri village on Friday, from where it moved to Sonachura, Bhangabera and Adhikaripara.
The CBI officials also spoke to villagers with bullet injuries and sought information about the happenings on Wednestday, when thousands of people tried to prevent the entry of police into villages in Nandigram.
The Calcutta High Court issued its directive in response to a PIL by a number of lawyers.
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