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The CBI conducted searches connected Saturday (May 16, 2026) astatine aggregate locations successful transportation with the execution of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's adjutant Chandrakant Rath, officials said.
The hunt cognition was conducted precocious Friday (May 15, 2026) night, which continued till the aboriginal hours of Saturday (May 16, 2026), they said.
The CBI has taken implicit the probe into Rath's execution from the West Bengal Police pursuing a petition from the State government.
The bureau has formed a seven-member peculiar probe squad nether a DIG of Special Crime from Delhi, comprising immoderate of the champion investigators drawn from assorted units of the agency, officials said.
The squad volition study to the Joint Director, Kolkata.
Rath, the enforcement adjunct to Mr. Adhikari, was changeable dormant successful Madhyamgram connected May 6, 2 days aft the declaration of results of the fiercely fought West Bengal Assembly polls. The incidental took spot connected a nationalist roadworthy astatine Doharia successful the Madhyamgram area.
The State constabulary had arrested 3 persons successful the case. Two accused — Mayank Raj Mishra and Vicky Maurya — were detained from Buxar successful Bihar, portion the third, Raj Singh, was detained from Ballia, Uttar Pradesh connected Sunday (May 10, 2026).
Police said astatine slightest 8 radical were allegedly progressive successful the conspiracy and execution of the murder. They judge the attackers carried retired a elaborate reconnaissance earlier targeting Rath.
