CBI may not press charges against Raja Bhaiya

NEW DELHI: CBI is not likely to press any charge against former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya in its charge sheet in connection with violence in Balipur village of Pratapgarh in which DSP Zia-Ul Haq and village head Nanhe Yadav were allegedly murdered.

CBI sources said agency is likely to file soon its charge sheet in the violence and murders which took place on March 2 evening but it has not found any evidence so far against the political heavyweight from the region who was made accused in the murder of DSP on the basis of FIR filed by his wife.

The sources said they had probed the incidents from all angles but no direct evidence against Raja Bhaiya in the murders or their conspiracy has surfaced.

They said the agency would file a charge sheet soon before the competent court and if it finds any evidence against Raja Bhaiya it would file a supplementary charge sheet.

They said the agency is likely to book Nanhe Yadav's son Babloo Yadav for allegedly killing the police officer.

They said Ajay Pal and Vijay Pal, both sons of Kamta Pal, who was having land dispute with Nanhe Yadav would be booked for his murder.

CBI believes that killing of Nanhe was the handiwork of hired shooters who gunned him down on March 2 when he was standing at a tea stall in Balipur village.

After the murder of Yadav, Haq had rushed to the village to control the situation.

By the time he approached the site, the news of Yadav's murder had spread and a large crowd gathered outside his house which was angry at the alleged apathy of the police and protested the police's alleged failure to stop the murder.

When Haq reached the house of Nanhe Yadav, a mob had gathered which entered into a scuffle with him while his fellow policemen allegedly deserted him, the sources said.

Yadav's brother Suresh, who was armed with a rifle, was also part of the crowd. As the scuffle was on, Suresh was killed after his gun accidentally went off, they said.

CBI sources claimed that enraged by the killing of his father and uncle Suresh, Babloo, who had a country-made gun, came out of his house and shot Haq dead who was being beaten up by a mob.

The role of other suspects- brothers of Nanhe Yadav and his domestic help- is also under probe and they are being questioned by the agency. Sources said that the agency has recovered the weapon, allegedly used in the killing Haq, from Babloo.

The agency has already arrested alleged killers of Yadav- Ajay Pal and Vijay Pal- both sons of Kamta Pal who is also a suspect in his murder, they said.

The Pal family was having land dispute with Nanhe Yadav's family which resulted in the village head's murder, they claimed.

The case was handed over to CBI on a request of slain DSP's wife Parveen Azad who accused Raghuraj Pratap Singh of having a role in the murder of her husband. She had also filed an FIR in this regard naming Raja Bhaiya and his close aides in the murder.