rampurhat birbhum eight people were charred to death in a latenight fire at bogtui village in rampurhat on monday a couple of hours after a trinamool congress panchayat deputy head was killed by bikeborne miscreantseleven persons were arrested till tuesday evening as the state government formed a special investigation team led by cid additional directorgeneral of police gyanwant singh and shunted out rampurhat subdivisional police officer sayan ahmed and rampurhat police station inspectorincharge tridib pramanik state directorgeneral of police manoj malaviya left for the spot about 225 km from kolkatathe centre too is sending a separate probe team headed by a jointsecretary level officer in the union home ministry officials said the centre had also asked for a report from the state government on the incidentthe eight deaths the highest toll in a single incident reported in bengal since the nine deaths in west midnapores netai on january 7 2011 sparked a political blame game bengal cm mamata banerjee responded strongly to governor jagdeep dhankhars statement that the arson orgy indicated that bengal was in the grip of a culture of violence and lawlessnessthe governors statement was highly improper sweeping and uncalled for and was unbecoming of the states constitutional head banerjee said asking dhankhar to stop making unwarranted statements and allow an impartial investigation and exemplary punishment for those guilty a larger political conspiracy to malign the state could not be ruled out she addeddgp malaviya said in kolkata that all angles were being probed it can be retaliation but the murder has no political connection he said adding that personal enmity could not be ruled out the situation is under control whatever happened took place within an hour of the murder the focus of the probe is the origin of the fire he added burdwan range inspectorgeneral bharat lal meena and cid deputy inspectorgeneral operations meeraj khalid were the other members of the state sit officials said trinamool worker lalan sheikh who witnessed bhadu sheikhs killing said a gang of 1012 miscreants came on bikes and hurled bombs at the barshal gram panchayat deputy head as he sat on his scooter and spoke on his phone we were sitting 1012 metres away and the assailants fled immediately after their hit job he said accusing villagers like chhoto lalan and palash sheikh who could not accept bhadus rise in local politics bhadu was from bogtui paschimpara and his assailants were from bogtui purbapara lalan said other villagers said bhadus brother babar too was killed a year ago palash and his associates threatened us on the phone barely two days ago lalan said