Mayawati rejects CBI probe into engineer's murder

LUCKNOW: Rejecting the demand for a CBI probe into the murder of a PWD engineer in Uttar Pradesh allegedly by a BSP MLA, Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday strongly condemned what she claimed to be "a mischievous campaign" by the Opposition to defame her government by linking the killing to her birthday celebration.

To counter the campaign, Mayawati told reporters here that her party would observe her birthday on January 15 by organising huge rallies across the state against the Congress, BJP and SP's "wrong doings" during their rule in the State.

"Where is the need for a CBI probe when the state police, on my orders, have arrested all the accused in the case," Mayawati told a crowded press conference a day after PWD engineer M K Gupta's murder allegedly by MLA Shekhar Tiwari shook the state.