Amidst growing political uproar over the killing of civilians in police firing in Nandigram, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday rushed a special director to make an assessment of the situation following the unearthing of evidence that bodies were dragged away from the area where clashes occurred on March 14.
Sources in the agency said there were some 'dragging marks' at the site of the incident, and this lead was being pursued by sleuths.
The evidence had led to speculation that the number of killed or injured could be more than the figures given by the state government, they said.
The CBI sent Special Director M L Sharma to wrap up the investigations conducted earlier by a three-member team led by Joint Director B B Mishra.
The questioning of a few people in villages in Nandigram had not yielded much because