Lucknow : The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to file a status report within one week in the murder of a journalist in Shahjahanpur, in which a SP minister and five others have been booked.
The court asked government counsel to inform it about the stage of investigation by June 24 along with their objections raised during course of hearing the matter.
The order was passed by a vacation division bench of Justices Shri Narain Shukla and Pratyush Kumar on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions for a CBI probe into the killing. The order was issued on the PIL filed by ‘We The People’, an NGO, on June 11.
A direction has also been sought in the petition for providing adequate compensation to the deceased scribe’s family.
On behalf of the state government, Additional Advocate General Bulbul Godiyal raised preliminary objections regarding maintainability of the petition. She contended that the FIR was lodged in this case on June 9 and soon after the PIL was filed on June 11.
AAG also submitted that the investigation was going on and no one has come forward to question it except the petitioner, hence the PIL was not maintainable and liable to be dismissed. She sought a week time to file these objections, which was granted by the court. The court while fixing June 24 as the next date of hearing directed the AAG to disclose the stage of the investigation of the case by this date.
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Will ensure no injustice to anyone: Akhilesh
Bahraich (UP): A day after Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Shivpal Yadav said that no minister will be sacked without probe in the murder case of a journalist, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday asserted that his government would ensure that no injustice is meted to anyone.
“Samajwadis (socialists) always fought against injustice. My government will ensure that no injustice is meted out to anyone,” Yadav told reporters here. He was asked about the murder of journalist Jagendra Singh in Shahjahanpur which state minister Ram Murti Verma has been accused of orchestrating.
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