Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said action will be taken against any police officer found guilty of negligence in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in South 24-Parganas Baruipur.

“The missing diary was lodged at 11.15 pm. We have made a primary analysis. I have told the Director General of Police to submit a report within 72-hours. If even one per cent negligence is found in any of our officers, strict action will be taken,” the chief minister said.

The chief minister reached Baruipur on Tuesday afternoon, three days after the rape and murder of the 11-year-old girl and held a meeting with the police top brass including the DGP and superintendents of police and police commissioners.

Adhikari said an outpost will be started immediately in Surjyapur, the village where the incident took place.

The girl went missing on Saturday evening and her body was found a day later in a pond. Post mortem revealed the girl was still alive, though unconscious, when her body was packed inside the sack and dropped into the pond.

The locals had claimed that the police did not start a thorough search for the girl immediately after the missing complaint was lodged.

Adhikari said the individual lynched on Sunday was innocent and his family too would get justice.

“I am not the investigating authority. The police have told me that the young man Indrajit Mandal was innocent. I have met his family members. That family will get justice too,” the chief minister said.

Adhikari said action would also be taken against those who indulged in arson and violence on Sunday after the girl’s body was recovered.

“Over 200 people have been identified, those involved in uprooting railway tracks and burning police vehicles. We will also find out those political people who instigated them, some of them were rejected by the people, others got only one seat in the Assembly. Radical and antinational forces were involved. No one will be spared,” Adhikari said.

Former Bengal Assembly Speaker and local Biman Bandyopadhyay and NCPI MP Saayoni Ghosh also went to Baruipur and met the chief minister.

The chief minister said he will return to Baruipur in a week’s time and apprise the family members of the progress made in the investigation.