CMO murders: High court reserves order on CBI probe

The Allahabad High Court on Friday reserved its order on a pending PIL, seeking CBI probe into the murder of two Chief Medical Officers in Lucknow.

The hearing of the PIL, filed by a local lawyer Prince Lenin, was taken up before a Lucknow division bench comprising Justices Pradip Kant and Rituraj Awasthi.

As per the earlier order of the court, the charge sheet, case diary with all records related to police probes in the murder of family welfare CMOs VK Arya and BP Singh were produced in the court.

On behalf of the state government, additional advocate general Jaideep Narain Mathur also ordered for further investigations of both the murder cases to be referred to the CBI by the state government.

After perusal of these documents, the court reserved its order and directed the police not to proceed further in this matter. The court also asked the lower court concerned not to proceed further on the charge sheets pending before it.

The police after completing the investigations had filed the charge sheets of both the murder cases before the CJM court Lucknow.

While Arya was shot dead in October last year, Singh was killed in Gomti Nagar area on April 2.

Deputy CMO YS Sachan, the conspirator in Singh's murder, was also found dead inside the Lucknow district jail hospital on June 22.