Bihar police firing: RJD wants SK Modi's role to be probed

Maintaining that the Bihar deputy chief minister's role be also probed, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) today demanded an inquiry by a sitting judge of the Patna high court into the Forbesganj police firing in which four people died.

"The judicial probe should also inquire into the role of deputy chief minister SK Modi, BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal and Forbesganj SDO Giriwar Dayal Singh," leader of the opposition in the state assembly Abdul Bari Siddiqui told reporters.

While leading a three-member RJD fact-finding team into the June 3 incident, he also demanded that the probe be completed within six months.

He said, "The confrontation between the villagers and the police took place because of Modi's direction to the local administration that the land for construction of the starch and glucose factory and the approach road within the premises of the proposed unit must be acquired."

Modi gave the directive during his meeting with local administration on May 29.

Siddiqui alleged that Agarwal, an industrialist, had ruled out giving any land for construction of the road.   

He also demanded cases to be registered against the accused officials.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar has already announced a judicial probe into the firing in Araria district.