The family members of scribe, who was allegedly killed at behest of the State minister for Backward Welfare Ram Murti Verma, now alleged that a local sub-inspector was pressurising them to withdraw the case and made a compromise in the matter.
RsRsA lady sub-inspector Seema Singh, who came to record our statement regarding the murder, had threatened us with dire consequences asking us to withdraw the case and make a compromise”, alleged family members of the scribe, before the media persons in Shahjahenpur on Thursdaymorning. They claimed to have passed on the information to senior officers but they refused to take cognizance. A forensic expert team of FSl in lucknow and from Moradabad, also reached the incident spot to collect evidences.
Reports also said that a team of Press Council of India (PCI), which already made announcement to visit and take first hand account of the case before pursuing the matter with the state government, would reportedly visit Shahjahenpur on Saturday. Suman Gupta, a member included in the team said that their team will investigate the involvement of administration in the death of scribe and they will also talk to the kins of deceased scribe.
It may be mentioned that a case was registered against State minister for Backward Welfare Ram Murti Verma along with five other person including a police inspector under sections 302, 120 B, 504 and 506 of the Indian
Penal Code, by the kins of Jogendra Singh. The kins of deceased scribe in their complaint alleged that Jogendra was writing news against the minister and then on June 1, the scribe was set ablaze under suspicious conditions, later the scribe succumbed to his severe burn injuries in a hospital here in lucknow on last Monday. Deceased Jogendra Singh, in his dying declaration had reportedly said that before a magistrate that he was set ablaze at behest of the minister by policemen and minister’s henchmen.