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CBI drags feet on Shehla murder

Last Updated 30 September 2011, 17:00 IST

“We are not in a position to share any details about the case looking at the sensitivity associated with the murder of the RTI activist,” CBI’s Bhopal Unit Deputy Inspector General Hemant Priyadarshi said. The murder took place on August 16, in front of Shehla’s house in the Kohe-E-Fiza locality.

She was entering her car to leave for an anti-corruption rally, which was being organised here as part of Anna Hazare’s movement, when she shot dead.

Following this a case was registered and the CBI took over the probe on September 3.  As parts of its investigations, the agency recreated the scene of the crime in front of her house and probed all possible angles to get to the bottom of the case. Groping in dark for clues, the CBI on September 16 announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh to the person who will provides reliable information to arrest those involved in the activist’s killing.

The issue also took a political turn in view of Shehla’s association with BJP’s Rajya Sabha member Tarun Vijay with whom she had worked on a number of projects.

She had also filed several RTI applications against many powerful persons, including forest, police and culture department officials, besides mining department persons.

The RTI activist was also a tiger conservationist and had filed applications on the issue of dwindling population of the big cats in the country.

Shehla’s father Masood Sultan, when contacted about the progress in the case, said he was not an expert to offer any comment on the CBI probe.

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(Published 30 September 2011, 17:00 IST)

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