With one more Samajwadi Party government minister, Kailash Chaurasiya, fell into controversy for assaulting a senior Transport Department officer, on Friday, the demand for action against state minister for backward class welfare, Ram Murti Singh Verma, further strengthened, amidst demand for transferring the probe into the hands of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “The manner in which the state government is handling the probe and trying to save the minister and cops in the scribe’s murder clearly pointed that one would not expect a fair probe by state agencies”, claimed chairman of Uttar Pradesh Congress media committee, Satyadeo Tripathi. Tripathi, who was also a former home minister in Uttar Pradesh, claimed that whether the allegations on the minister and the cops are true or fabricated, but the natural justice suggests that the government should go for a probe by some independent agency, hence the matter should be immediately transferred into the hands of CBI.
Tripathi also said that the minister should also resign while the cops accused in the FIR should be placed under suspension otherwise, the accused would take advantage of their positions to influence the probe. Bharatiya Janata Party’s(BJP) spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak here said that a CBI probe should be ordered as the allegations have been made against a state minister and the deceased scribe will get the justice. Rashtriya lok Dal’s(RlD) state president Munna Singh Chauhan,in a statement said that death of scribe cannot be sidelines and a CBI probe must be ordered in the case. Chauhan also alleged that police is making the pressure of victim family to compromise.
Replying to media query on progress in the case, IG (law and order), A Satish Ganesh said that the sleuths of the Forensic Team had collected evidences from the crime site in Shahjahenpur. He claimed that the report of the FSl experts would take about a week only after which they could proceed further with the investigation. It may be mentioned that kin of the deceased have registered a case against Backward Class Welfare State minister, Ram Murti Singh Verma and five other people including a police inspector for the murder of scribe Jogendra Singh. Jogendra’s father have threatened to commit suicide if he won’t get justice.
Meanwhile, Minister of State for Child Development, Kailash Chaurasiya, once again created trouble for the Government, when he alleged to have beaten a senior officer of Transport Department in Allahabad. A senior officer posted in Mirjapur, who was in Allahabad, alleged that the minister had manhandled and misbehaved with him. Earlier, Chaurasiya, who contested Parliament elections against prime minister, Narendra Modi, in Varanasi, came to news when he was convicted by a local court in his native town Mirjapur. However, the government not removed him from the ministry. Chaurasiya, later also get relief in the matter when session court withdraw the conviction against him.