With more victim injured in police firing in Azamgarh succumbed on Tuesday taking the toll now to three, the government is yet to take any decision whether the probe into the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party leader and former SP legislator Sarvesh Singh aka Seepu should be handed over to the sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)or some state level agency should be entrusted for the purpose.
We have already received the letter of the family members handed over to district magistrate of Azamgarh in which they demanded a CBI probe but we are still in the process of concerning with all the authorities concerned before taking any final decision in this regard", claimed Principal Secretary (Home) R M Srivastava when contacted on Tueday evening. He refused to speak any thing further claiming that the matter was under consideration.
However sources said that the government is not very serious on recommending the case to CBI and they were even looking possibility of handing it over to the sleuths of the Crime Branch Crime Investigation Department (CB CID), the premiere investigating agency of the State. Meanwhile, senior superintendent of police, Azamgarh, Arvind Sen confirmed that one more person, allegedly injured in police firing during protests against killing of former MlA Sarvesh Kumar Singh Seepu on last Friday, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday.
The victim identified as Sanjay Vishwakarma, was admitted to a hospital in Varanasi after he got injured in police firing. It may be mentioned that Sarvesh and one of his associate were shot dead on last Friday allegedly by some unidentified miscreants who opened indiscriminate fire. Sarvesh was a Samajwadi Party MlA from Sagari seat till 2012, however, later, he joined BSP and contested the last Assembly elections on BSP ticket from Sadar seat in Azamgarh but lost. Wife of the former MlA, Vandana Singh, and brother, Santosh Singh, have raised suspicion over the role of police and had said that a CBI probe should be conducted into the matter.
The family members said that they do not have any faith in state police inquiry and if the government does not recommend a CBI probe they would observe fast and if required move to the High Court. They also handed over a memorandum in this regard to the DM of Azamgarh, Neena Sharma on Monday morning. State government has already arrested and lodged FIR against the Kotwal and six policemen of Jiyanpur police station where the murder happened. later irate mob torched the police station and in police firing so far three persons identified as Jitendra Gupta (25, Chandra Bhanu (48) and Sanjay Vishwakarma were killed.