UP govt recommends CBI probe into ex-MLA's murder, student killing

The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday recommended CBI probes into the alleged killing of a medical student at Moradabad and the murder of a BSP leader at Azamgarh district.

"The government has recommended CBI probes into the murder of former MLA and BSP leader Sarvesh Kumar Singh Seepu and Neeraj Bhadana, an MBBS student, at a private college," Principal Secretary R M Srivastava said in Lucknow.

Former MLA and BSP leader Seepu and Bharat Rai were shot dead by unidentified persons on July 19. Seepu's murder sparked violence in which three persons were killed in alleged police firing. Relatives of Seepu on Thursday went on hunger strike to press for their demand of CBI inquiry into his murder and compensation to kin of those killed in police firing.

Former SP MLA's wife Vandana Singh, brother Santosh Singh Teepu, relatives and supporters started a hunger strike this morning in favour of the demand for a CBI inquiry and compensation to the kin of those killed during protests. The protesters demanded Rs 25 lakh compensation to families of each of those killed and Rs 10 lakh to people injured in alleged police firing, sources said.

Seepu's family also demanded that the cases lodged against people in connection with the violence that broke out after his death should be withdrawn.

Meanwhile, in second case Neeraj Bhadana, a first year MBBS student at a private college of Moradabad, died under mysterious circumstances in the institute campus and her post-mortem revealed that she was strangulated to death, police had said.

Bhadana, hailing from Faridabad in Haryana, was found lying on the floor on July 6. The post-mortem report, however, found that the girl was strangulated to death and there was no fracture on the body, following which a case of murder was lodged against unknown persons, police said.

"Prima facie, it appeared to be an accident, but according to the post-mortem report it was a murder. A case of murder against unknown persons has been lodged in Pakbada police station," SSP Moradabad Rajesh Modak had said. The girl was admitted to the hospital situated in the college where she died, sources said.

The college management had termed it an accidental death, saying that the girl fell from the fifth floor as she was sitting on the railing.