India, Sept. 15 -- The Calcutta high court on Monday directed the West Bengal government to form a medical board to examine the discrepancies found in the reports of two post mortem examinations done on two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers killed in East Midnapore district in July, lawyers who attended the hearing said.

"The division bench of justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi said the discrepancies in the reports of the back-to-back post mortems must be examined by a team of senior doctors. The state was directed to file the report by September 18, the next date of hearing," a lawyer said, requesting anonymity.

The BJP workers, Sudhir Chandra Paik, 65, and Sujit Das, 23, died on July 12 at a village dance competition or...