SC asks CBI to probe against BSP minister
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre, CBI and the Utter Pradesh government on a plea for the agency probe into the murder of a girl law student in which a former BSP minister is prime accused and facing trial.
Yogendra Prasad, the father of victim Asha, who allegedly was sexually exploited by former BSP minister Anand Sain Yadav and murdered when she became pregnant, had filed a petition for the Central Bureau of Investigation probe in the apex court after the Allhabad high court had rejected his plea.
The police had recovered Asha’s body from Gomati Nager locality in Lucknow on October 27, 2007 and registered a case against Yadav, his driver Vijay and woman co-accused, Seema. Chief minister Mayawati had dropped him from the ministry after the registration of the FIR against him.
The apex court vacation of Justices Deepak Verma and K.S. Radhakrishnan also issued the notices to Yadav and the other co-accused. All the respondents, including the Centre, CBI and UP government were directed to submit affidavits in reply to the petition for the agency probe by the slain girl’s father.
The notices were issued after the status of the case was placed before the bench as demanded by it after Prasad’s counsel had submitted that the state police was not pursuing the case properly “under political” pressure. The UP government counsel informed the bench that a total of 24 witnesses had been examined in the case while Sain continued to be in the judicial custody and his bail plea had been rejected by the HC thrice. Anand Sain’s father Mitter Sain Yadav was also a minister in the previous SP government, headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Sain himself was a SP activist but had joined BSP before the 2007 assembly elections and was straightaway taken in the council of ministers by Ms Mayawait.
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