The party said it does not have faith in the state CID.
"We will move the Calcutta High Court this week seeking CBI investigation or a judicial probe by a retired judge into the fire and stampede," West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Adhir Chowdhury told PTI over phone from Baharampore.
Raising question over the neutrality of state CID, which is investigating the incident, Chowdhury said he wanted an independent agency to probe the fire and subsequent stampede at the state-run hospital that claimed two lives and left seven injured on Saturday last.
Alleging that the CID has arrested Congress worker Amal Gupta on false charges in a bid to prove Banerjee's sabotage claim, Chowdhury said "they have arrested the man who rescued so many persons at the hospital during the incident."
Gupta was arrested yesterday by the CID. Later, he was admitted to hospital after he complained of uneasiness.
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