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The Bengal Health Department’s separate inquiry will quickly become a political flashpoint, and the CBI handoff will keep Mamata Banerjee and the state government under renewed pressure.

This is a major accountability story because it reopens one of the state’s most sensitive criminal cases and could widen pressure on senior political figures. It also signals that the state is not treating the matter as closed, despite the passage of time.

Canadian prosecutors will move the case forward quickly after the Toronto airport arrest, and the next public focus will be on how Abdul Ghafoori remained at large for more than seven months.

The arrest closes a major cross-border fugitive case involving an Indian national and could surface new details about how he evaded capture for months.