BSP govt may order CBI probe in cases involving SP men

LUCKNOW: The BSP government in Uttar Pradesh is contemplating recommending CBI inquiries in some cases which had taken place during the previous Samajwadi Party regime.

"Some more CBI inquiries are in the pipeline," state's Home Secretary R M Srivastav said when asked whether the state government could recommend inquiries by the central agency in some more cases.

Srivastav, however, refused to elaborate saying that it would be premature to reveal them at this moment.

The Mayawati government, soon after assuming power in the state, had recommended a CBI inquiry into the former BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case in which SP MP Ateeq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were among the prime accused.

Pal was gunned down in Dhumanganj area in Allahabad in 2005. The BSP, which was in the opposition then, had demanded a CBI inquiry into the killing but it was rejected by the then SP regime.

Sources said that some other high profile murders allegedly involving SP leaders and mafia-turned-politicians, who had supported the previous dispensation, could be handed over to CBI for investigation.

Notable among them is the murder of one Sant Gyaneshwar in which SP MLA from Isauli in Sultanpur district Sonu Singh is an accused, sources said.

Some other steps taken by the SP regime were also under the scanner, sources said referring especially to the recruitment of constables in the police and PAC.

The government has also summoned the police records of mafia-turned-politician MLA from Mau Mukhtar Ansari, sources said indicating that Mau riots in 2005 could be re-investigated.