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Probe into CITU leader?s murder
INSPECTOR GENERAL of police Suvrat Tripathi on Thursday ordered a detailed inquiry into the murder of CITU leader Amrendra Pandey, who was employed at the Triveni Sheet Glass factory in Ghurpur.
INSPECTOR GENERAL of police Suvrat Tripathi on Thursday ordered a detailed inquiry into the murder of CITU leader Amrendra Pandey, who was employed at the Triveni Sheet Glass factory in Ghurpur.
The IG took the step following complaints of manipulations by the investigating officer to help the conspirators and the murder accused. The complaint was handed over to the IG by a relative of the deceased. The relative is also a complainant and an eyewitness in the case, which hogged the headlines for several days.
Talking to HT, the IG said he had ordered the inquiry in two parts. The criminal part of the inquiry will be carried out by CO Rishi Pal Singh Yadav, while the other probe into allegation of corruption against SSP Vijay Singh Meena will be carried out by DIG Akhilesh Mehrotra. It has been alleged in the complaint that the accused gave a sum of Rs 25 lakh to the SSP in order to influence the case, in which MD JK Agrawal could not be arrested, despite the fact that the High Court had refused to grant a stay on his arrest.The MD was also one of the accused.
Amrendra, was murdered on March 24, 2006 while he was reportedly proceeding to the labour colony after attending duty. The Ghurpur police allegedly started manipulating the case since day one. The DIG had nominated inspector Daraganj as the IO, but he reportedly did his best to save JK Agrawal, CP Yadav and KK Gupta. Besides the conspirators, two of the accused were arrested. The third accused could not be arrested till date. There is even no mention of his name by the IO.
Two of the accused, Bhaskar Yadav and Avnish Yadav, had in the presence of mediapersons confessed that arms and money were provided by the factory management to carry out the killing of Amrendra Pandey, who had been leading a workers’ agitation against the management of the factory.
