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Cal HC directs CBI, NIA probe on "forcible conversion" of Malda family

Kolkata, May 20 (UNI) Calcutta High Court has directed two central probe agencies - the CBI and NIA - to investigate the alleged "forcible religious conversion" of a family in West Bengal's Malda district.
Ordering the two federal agencies to probe jointly, Calcutta High Court judge Justice Rajasekhal Mantha on Thursday directed the district superintendent of police to file an affidavit on the incident in Kaliachak by June 2i.
Recently two brothers of the same family, along with the wife and children of one of the siblings, alleged that they were forced to undergo "religious conversion". A petition filed by one of the aggrieved parties claimed that the inspector-in-charge of the Kaliachak police station and two other policemen were involved in the incident.
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