DSP killing: CBI questions Raja Bhaiya’s cousin

March 30, 2013 07:42 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 10:06 pm IST - Pratapgarh

A file photo of former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya.

A file photo of former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya.

Taking its probe to the doorsteps of former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh, the CBI on Saturday questioned his cousin and member of the State legislative council Akshay Pratap Singh in connection with the violence in Balipur village in which DSP Zia-ul-Haque was killed.

CBI sources said Mr. Singh was questioned in detail about his whereabouts on the day of incident in which village head Nanhe Yadav, his brother Suresh and Haque were allegedly murdered during violence arising over a land dispute on March 2.

They said the agency might also question his cousin and independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya in connection with these murders as some suspects are known to be cronies of the influential leader.

The CBI has registered four cases pertaining to three murders in Balipur village on March 2 and booked Raja Bhaiya in one of them on the complaint of Haque’s wife. Raja Bhaiya had to resign from the Akhilesh Yadav government after his name cropped up in the case.

Recently, the agency has recovered a blood-stained wooden rod and ammunition belt with six live cartridges from various places here during its ongoing probe into the murder of the DSP and the two others.

The blood-stained ammunition belt was recovered from a box concealed in a house of Suresh Yadav, who was gunned down along with his brother and village pradhan Nanhe, official sources said.

The wooden rod, which too had blood stains on it, was recovered from another area in the village at the instance of local police officials who were being questioned by the CBI in the case, the sources said.

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