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High Court notice to UP on plea for CBI probe
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The Allahabad High Court granted Uttar Pradesh government two weeks time to submit its response on a PIL seeking direction for a CBI inquiry into all the major riots which took place in the state after Samajwadi Party came to power.
Lucknow (PTI): The Allahabad High Court granted Uttar Pradesh government two weeks time to submit its response on a PIL seeking direction for a CBI inquiry into all the major riots which took place in the state after Samajwadi Party came to power.
The Lucknow bench of Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and Justice Anil Kumar Tripathi II passed the order after Additional Advocate General Bulbul Godiyal, appearing on behalf of Uttar Pradesh government, sought two weeks time to seek instructions and file response. On September 11, a local social activist Nutan Thakur had filed the PIL seeking direction for a CBI inquiry into all the major riots which took place after the formation of SP government in Uttar Pradesh on March 15 last year. In the PIL, it has been alleged that the action and policy of the current government and its officials had been such that it showed a definite tilt towards a particular sect.
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It alleged that in all the riots that took place in last 18 months the administration "shied away from taking action against culprits of that particular sect". It stated that this has resulted in a sense of mistrust in members of the other community, including the petitioner. Thakur, while narrating various communal riots beginning from Mathura on June 1 last year, said there had been "partisan and ineffective action" in them. She appealed for effective and unbiased CBI inquiry in each of these major riots just like Gujarat riots. She also prayed that the ambit of Justice Sahai commission constituted by the state government to probe into Muzaffarnagar clashes should be expanded to all major riots during this period.
Rajnath blames SP
New Delhi (Agencies): BJP president Rajnath Singh on Monday blamed the Samajwadi Party for the communal violence in the Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas, which has claimed 48 lives. Taking the opportunity to hit at the Congress-led government at the Centre, the BJP president said that if the central government had intervened, violence could have been averted. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh BJP’s core group meet is underway at the party headquarters with senior leaders Amit Shah, Kalraj Mishra, Murli Manohar Joshi, Vinay Katiyar and Varun Gandhi attending the meet. The party is expected to mull strategy for the upcoming General Elections and Muzaffarnagar violence.
JD(U) MP detained
Muzaffarnagar (PTI): JD(U) MP Ali Anwar Ansari was prevented from visiting the riot-hit areas here and detained at the railway station by the UP police. Circle Officer, Sanjeev Bajpai said Ansari was detained as a preventive measure in view of the situation in the region.Ansari said, "The state government has no problem when Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi visited the area but it is resorting to such action against us when our effort is to bring peace in the trouble-torn areas."
Special cell begins Muzaffarnagar probe
Muzaffarnagar (PTI): A special cell comprising an additional Superintendent of Police, two DySP and 30 police inspectors, set up to investigate cases related to riots here, has started collecting evidence. The special cell was formed on the instructions of the UP government, District Magistrate, Kaushal Raj Sharma said.Close to 1,700 arms licences have been cancelled in the area since the riots erupted and notice issued to 5,000 other arms license holders, the DM said.
A total of 7,198 people from 4,729 families are at present living in 41 relief camps set up by the administration, he said, adding the problem has largely been witnessed in 32 villages of Muzaffarnagar. Senior Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar said that close to 20 Special Investigation Teams have been constituted to probe the riot cases. The special teams have been asked to go to camps to obtain complaints from the riot-affected people and people can even approach the SSPs camp office in the city to file the complaints, he said yesterday. Meanwhile, Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Naresh Tikait, who is accused of provoking violence, has demanded a CBI probe into the matter.
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