India News | CBI Takes over Investigation into Case of Missing Teenager from Bardhaman
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The CBI has on the directions of the Calcutta High Court taken over the investigation into alleged kidnapping of a teenaged girl from Bardhaman district in West Bengal on August 9 last year, officials said on Monday.
New Delhi, Feb 19 (PTI) The CBI has on the directions of the Calcutta High Court taken over the investigation into alleged kidnapping of a teenaged girl from Bardhaman district in West Bengal on August 9 last year, officials said on Monday.
The 14-year old girl's parents had alleged that their daughter had left home at 6 PM on August 9, 2023, for her studies but did not return, they said.
They had registered an FIR at the Anti-human Trafficking Unit of the state CID on August 17 that year.
The Calcutta High Court had handed over the probe to the CBI on February 8 this year, they said.
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