Overview
- The CBI re-registered the case and cited murder, criminal conspiracy and organised-crime provisions under India’s new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with Arms Act sections.
- The agency set up a special team drawing officers from multiple CBI units for inter-state operations under a Kolkata-based supervisor.
- Subhash Chander Kundu from the CBI’s Special Crime unit was named investigating officer as Central Forensic Science Laboratory experts joined the probe.
- A CBI-CFSL team used advanced 3D scanners to create a digital map of the site to help reconstruct the sequence of the shooting and verify accounts.
- Three men arrested in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are in police custody until May 24 as officers pursue more suspects and the person who ordered the attack.