OUR STAFF REPORTER Indore In a new development in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, National Commission for Women ( NCW) chairperson Mamta Sharma here on Monday said that the Commission would set up a committee to probe into the
case.
‘We have decided to form a panel in the case following alleged statement of 0BJP MLA Dhruv Narayan Singh that he has such relations with 20 women and his name coming up in the case a number of times,’Sharma said.
‘The NCW has decided to take a cognizance of the case and form a panel to minutely probe the matter to get to its bottom,’she added.
‘The panel will probe, specially, how much role this angle ( of illicit relations) played in the murder. The probe report would be forwarded to the state government,’she went on to add.
The main accused, interior designer Zahida Pervez and co- accused Saba Farooqui had alleged on a number of occasions that the BJP MLA was the alt145 mastermindalt39of the murder.
If necessary, the NCW panel may also question Zahida and Saba, Sharma said. Both Zahida and Saba are currently lodged in the Indores district jail under a judicial remand.
The CBI claims that Zahida planned the murder because she had become jealous of Shehlas growing proximity to the BJP MLA. The CBI had questioned Dhruv Narayan in the case but he was not arrested.
MURDER CASE
