Kolkata Police sets up SIT to probe into fire incident in which 4000 EVMs were destroyed
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the fire at a government building in Kolkata’s Alipore area that destroyed around 4,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), even as minister of state for fire and emergency services Kaushik Chowdhury raised questions over how the blaze spread to the floors where the machines were stored. Kolkata Police sets up SIT to probe into fire incident in which 4000 EVMs were destroyed “A four-member SIT has been set up to probe the incident in which a fire broke out in a government building in Kolkata’s Alipore area on Wednesday,” a senior police officer said. “Preliminary investigation suggests that the fire started on the third or fourth floor. We wonder how it reached the eighth and ninth floors. The fifth, sixth and seventh floors in between were not damaged,” Chowdhury told reporters on Thursday. The minister said around 4,000 EVMs stored on the eighth and ninth floors were destroyed in the fire. “Apart from a few government offices including a one linked to midday …
