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1990 Ayodhya firing: Mulayam Singh Yadav killed my husband, Kar Sevak's widow files case after 27 years

Twenty seven years after 1990 firing in Ayodhya, a widow of a Kar Sevak has filed a case of murder and conspiracy against then Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.

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On his birthday, Mulayam Singh Yadav had justified the 1990 Ayodhya firing and said he took the decision for the integrity of the country. (Akhilesh Yadav/Twitter)
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Twenty seven years after 1990 firing in Ayodhya, a widow of a Kar Sevak has filed a case of murder and conspiracy against then Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Gayatri Devi, whose husband Ramesh Kumar Pandey was killed in firing in Ayodhya on November 2 1990, has filed a case against Muayam Singh Yadav under Sections 120-B and 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The case comes 27 years after firing on the Kar Sevaks in Ayodhya on the Yadav's orders.

In her petition, filed in the Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistarte (ACJM) in Ayodhya, Gayatri Devi stated that Yadav has on a number of occasions publicly admitted that he had ordered firing on Kar Sevaks.

“Since he (Mulayam Singh Yadav) has publicly admitted to issue orders for firing on Kar sevaks in which my husband was also killed, he (Mulayam Singh Yadav) should be charged with murder and conspiracy to kill my husband and other unarmed Kar Sevaks,” she pleaded.

Gayatri Devi was particularly annoyed with the Samjwadi Party patriarch's recent statement on his birthday on November 22 in which he said that “he would have ordered more killings of Kar Sevaks, if required, to save the country’s unity and integrity.”

On his birthday, Mulayam Singh Yadav had also said that Samajwadi Party had got more seats after firing on Kar Seavks in Ayodhya than what it has got in 2017 Assembly polls.

A total of 28 Kar Sevaks, including Gayatri Devi’s husband Ramesh Kumar Pandey, were killed when Yadav had ordered firing on them when they tried to march towards Babri Masjid on October 30 and November 2 1990.

During hearing in the case against Mulayam Singh Yadav, Gayatri Devi’s counsel Vishal Srivastava also pleaded that the widow of the slain Kar Sewak has four children and her husband was the only bread earner in the family.

“After his death in the firing, she had faced a lot of difficulties in raising four children without any financial support from state government,” pointed the Counsel.

After admitting widow’s writ petition, the ACJM Court in Ayodhya has reserved its judgment which may land septuagenarian Mulayam Singh Yadav in trouble for publicly admitting his orders to open fire on Kar Sevaks.

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