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Centre ready for CBI investigation into murder

Mayawati puts a rider: Probe police recruitment during SP rule

UP Chief Minister Mayawati.

LUCKNOW: The Centre on Saturday said it is ready to order a CBI probe into the killing of the PWD engineer allegedly by a Bahujan Samaj Party MLA if the Uttar Pradesh Government recommends this course of action while Chief Minister Mayawati put a rider saying she would agree if the probe agency takes over the case pertaining to police recruitment during Samajwadi Party rule in the State.

“If the U.P. Government recommends a CBI probe into the killing of engineer M. K. Gupta in Auraiya, the Centre will order a CBI probe into the matter,” said Union Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal talking to media persons in Kanpur.

He said invoking the National Security Act (NSA) and the Gangster Act against prime accused BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari was just a “face-saving” exercise by the State Government.

Chief Minister Mayawati responded by saying her government “has no objection to referring the engineer murder case to the CBI but only when the investigating agency accepts all the dozen-odd cases referred to it, including the recruitment scam of police constables under the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav government, which has been turned down”.

Narco test

Ms. Mayawati told reporters in Lucknow that, if required, her Government would also order a narco-analysis test of the BSP MLA arrested in connection with the murder as well as the station house officer of the Dibiyapur police station where the crime took place, Hoshiyar Singh, who has since been suspended.

PWD engineer M. K. Gupta was killed allegedly by Shekhar Tiwari and his supporters after he purportedly refused to pay money for Ms. Mayawati’s birthday celebrations due next month. - PTI

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