BJP MP Tarun Vijay will be questioned in connection with the killing of RTI activist Shehla Masood here on August 16, Madhya Pradesh Police said on Thursday.
A police team from the state will soon visit New Delhi in this regard, it said.
"Although it has been decided to question Mr. Vijay in connection with Ms. Shehla's murder, no date has been fixed for the visit of the police team to New Delhi," Bhopal Range IG, Vijay Yadav told PTI.
Reacting to the development, Congress leader Digvijay Singh demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI.
"The way Ms. Masood has been killed is painful....Now that Tarun Vijay's name has cropped up, I believe the chief minister should hand over the case to the CBI," the Congress general secretary said.
Madhya Pradesh BJP President, Prabhat Jha told reporters here that Mr. Vijay may have known Ms. Shehla but this itself was not enough to say that he was involved in her murder.
Mr. Prabhat said the Madhya Pradesh government has already asked the Centre to initiate a CBI inquiry into Ms. Shehla's murder.
"I only want that the guilty are not spared and the innocent in the case are not punished," he said.
