Amidst demand of a probe by the sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and union government also showing it’s acceptance to the same if state government referred the matter to them, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, made a surprise move when he ordered a judicial probe into the Mathura incident.
An official communiqué of the government confirmed that judicial probe headed by retired Allahabad High court judge Imtiaz Murtaza would probe into the Mathura violence incident of June 2 in which 29 people were killed including two police officers. A single member judicial probe would complete its investigation within two months time and submit its report to the government with its headquarters at lucknow, the release mentioned. Earlier similar enquiry has been conducted in worst ever riots in Muzaffarnagar.
The release said that judicial commission would investigate into six points which includes the reason behind the violence, role of the intelligence and the district officials, along with that of supervisory level officers etc. The Commission would also probe into the efforts of the district administration in vacating the encroached Jawahar Bagh area.
The judicial commission would take over the probe from the Aligarh divisional Commissioner Chandrakant who was investigating the matter at present. The announcement of the judicial probe was made after a petition was rejected by the Supreme court demanding a CBI probe into the Mathura violence. The apex court had asked the petitioners to move the Allahabad High Court in this regard.
Besides Congress which is demanding a judicial probe by a sitting a High Court judge, all the other political parties and even the family members of the slain SP(City) Dwivedi were demanding a CBI probe into the entire Mathura incident. BSP supremo Mayawati had stick to demand of a CBI probe.
On Monday evening, brother of Mukul Dwivedi claimed that his family first wanted justice and not compensation. ``The government should conduct a fair probe and punish all those who were responsible for the incident along with those who deserted SP City when the miscreants pulled my brother inside the Jawahar Bagh and later mercilessly beaten him to death”, claimed Mukul’s brother while demanding justice from chief minister. He said that none of the police officials were so far punished so they wanted to request the chief minister to first punish the officials otherwise they failed to get justice. ``My brother was not martyred but murdered in front of police officials so until those officers would face action till than we cannot say that Mukul was martyred’ he added while once again demanding a CBI probe into the matter.
29 people, including two police officers, were killed during clashes between encroachers and police in Mathura on last Thursday. The violence had claimed the lives of Superintendent of Police (City) Mukul Dwivedi and SHO Santosh Kumar. So far only district magistrate and senior superintendent of police of Mathura were removed on Monday and no other action was taken against anyone else. The government had also dispatched a report to the Central Government on the Mathura’s incident but in that report also, no one was directly held responsible for the incident.