Ziaul Haq murder case: CBI probe team stoned
Wednesday March 13, 2013 09:02:34 AM,
IANS
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Lucknow: The CBI
team probing the triple murder at Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh
village in which former state minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka
Raja Bhaiyya is an accused, was attacked by unidentified
assailants late Tuesday.
The team's vehicle was pelted with stones near Manikpur late
night, leaving its windscreen smashed and the driver of the
vehicle injured, police said.
Police officials rushed to the spot and combed the area, but the
attackers had fled by then.
A case was later registered against unknown people and the circle
officer of Kunda has been handed over its probe. At the time of
the attack, Deputy Superintendent of Police (CBI) Surendra Singh
and three other sleuths were inside the car.
The CBI team has been camping in the area for the last five days.
It is trying to recreate the scene of the crime, interrogate
witnesses and zero in on call details of Rajiv and Guddu Singh --
close accomplices of Raja Bhaiyya.
CBI sources told IANS that while it "was too early to conclude
anything as of now, the probe was in the right direction".
An official said: "So far we have tried to piece together the
jigsaw, to understand the sequence of events and the killing of
Bilapur village head Nanhe Yadav, and also the mob fury
thereafter."
The official explained that investigators were trying to
understand the sequence that involved the firing that killed
Suresh Yadav, brother of the village headman, the arrival of the
police team, and the manner in which slain circle officer
Zia-ul-Haq was abandoned by the police team to face the irate mob
alone.
The CBI team has also tried to locate the bullet which pierced
through the rib cage of Haq and exited from the chest. The circle
officer's service revolver has been missing, and there is
speculation that the shot may have been fired from it.
Telephone records of the accused in the four first information
reports (FIRs) are also being looked into to verify their location
when the killings occurred.
Raja Bhaiyya, independent legislator from Kunda, has already
claimed that he was not present at the crime scene when the
incident occurred. He said he was at his Kalidas Marg home in
Lucknow.
The CBI team Tuesday also got five-day custody of the accused.
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