BJP MP Tarun Vijay to be quizzed in Shehla Masood murder case

BHOPAL/NEW DELHI: BJP MP Tarun Vijay will be questioned by Madhya Pradesh police in connection with the killing of RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal last month.

A police team from the state will soon visit New Delhi in this regard, the police said today.

"Although it has been decided to question Vijay in connection with Shehla's murder, no date has been fixed for the visit of the police team to New Delhi," Bhopal Range IG Vijay Yadav told PTI.

Vijay, who is also spokesperson of BJP, said he was a "very good friend" of Masood and that he was ready to share with any probe agency whatever information he had.

Masood was shot at when she was in her car in front of her residence in the posh Koh-e-Fiza locality in Bhopal on August 16 when she was just about to head to a rally that was part of Anna Hazare's campaign against corruption.

The Rajya Sabha MP said he and Masood had regularly exchanged notes and demanded that the culprits should be "booked and hanged."

"I think that the whole things got politicised. We stand by the family of Shehla and every right thinking Indian will stand by them," he said in New Delhi.

"Whatever information we have, we will be providing to all the investigation agencies, because we are as much concerned to get justice for Shehla," he added.

Congress leader Digvijay Singh demanded that the Masood case be handed over to CBI.

"The way Masood has been killed is painful....Now that Tarun Vijay's name has cropped up, I believe the chief minister should hand over the case to the CBI," the Congress general secretary said.

A communication from the Madhya Pradesh government seeking a CBI probe into the killing has already reached the Centre.