On January 24, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh alleged that the Centre had transferred the investigation of the Bhima Koregaon case from the Pune police to the National Investigation Agency without the state government’s consent. This followed reports indicating that the Maharashtra government was considering establishing a Special Investigation Team to inquire into the case.
In 2018, ten human rights activists had been arrested in connection with the violence at Bhima Koregaon village near Pune in January that year, when the Bharatiya Janata Party was in power in the state. The police claimed that the arrested people had links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), though a chargesheet has yet to be filed. The BJP lost power in Maharashtra in November.
Maharashtra’s Home Minister condemned the Centre’s decision to move the case to the National Investigation Agency, saying in a tweet that this had happened “without the consent of the state”.
This controversy comes in the wake of Chhattisgarh’s suit in the Supreme Court on January 16 challenging the constitutional validity of the National Investigation Agency. The larger context is also important here: in recent years, significant Centre-state tensions have arisen over the powers of central agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation...
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