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Raja Bhaiya booked for murder, quits as UP
minister
Monday March 04, 2013 02:41:36 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow/New
Delhi: Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh
alias Raja Bhaiya quit Monday, a day after he was booked for the
murder of a senior police officer.
"Raja Bhaiya has tendered his resignation and it has been
accepted. The investigation is on and law will take its own
course," Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters
outside parliament in the national capital.
The food and civil supplies minister was charged with conspiracy
to kill Deputy Superintendent of Police Zia-ul Haq.
Zia-ul Haq was killed with two others in Balipur village in
Pratapgarh district, over 100 km from Lucknow Saturday night,
during violence that followed the murder of the village head Nanhe
Yadav.
Besides Raja Bhaiya, seven of his associates were also booked.
Parveen, the wife of the slain officer, has accused the minister
of conspiring to kill her husband as he was investigating a
"sensitive matter".
Zia-ul Haq was first attacked by an angry mob and then shot in the
leg and chest from a point blank range, an official said.
The case was registered Sunday evening after Zia-ul Haq's family
refused to allow his funeral until a case was registered against
the controversial minister.
The minister's close associates who have been booked in the case
include panchayat head Gulshan Yadav and driver Rohit Singh. They
have been charged with murder.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has announced ex-gratia payment of
Rs.20 lakh to the family of the deceased police official and
transferred Pratapgarh Superintendent of Police (SP) Anil Rai and
posted L.R. Kumar as the new district police chief.
The incident is set to create fresh trouble for the Akhilesh Yadav
government, which completes a year in office March 15.
Law and order has become a bane for the state government with a
spurt in crime in recent times, even against police officials.
With the state assembly session under way, political parties are
set to corner the chief minister Monday in the state assembly.
Congress leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Narayan
Dutt Tiwari has blamed "administrative failure" for the "tragic
event".
Senior Congress leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi also slammed the
government for its "inefficiency" and "lack of administrative
acumen" and said such an incident was reflective of the situation
in Uttar Pradesh.
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