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CBI set to probe BJP idealogue’s demise?

THE ASIAN AGE. | AMITA VERMA
Published : Sep 22, 2018, 1:26 am IST
Updated : Sep 22, 2018, 1:26 am IST

Officials are also frantically looks for police personnel and witness who were present at the time of the incident.

Railways officials are now preparing to summon Rakesh Gupta the complainant and ask him if he has any evidence in the case.
 Railways officials are now preparing to summon Rakesh Gupta the complainant and ask him if he has any evidence in the case.

Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is likely to order a CBI inquiry into the mysterious death of BJP ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya, exactly 50 years ago.

Mr Upadhyaya was found dead on a railway track in Mughalsarai (now renamed as Deendayal Upadhyaya Nagar), on September 25, 1968 and it is yet unknown if he was killed or had an accidental death.

According to sources, Rakesh Gupta, a BJP worker from Ambedkar Nagar had sent a letter to the ministry of home affairs in 2017, seeking a fresh probe into the death of Upadhyaya. He said that he apprehended a larger conspiracy behind the death.

The home ministry has now sought a report on the same from the Yogi government. SP Railways, Allahabad, was asked to look into the matter and he submitted his report to the IG railways who would forward it to the state government.

The report said that all documents, including the FIR and the case diary related to the incident, are missing but the police station register says that three persons were arrested and one of them was convicted with a four-year term.

“The incident took place on February 11, 1968 and case no 67/1968 was registered against unknown persons. Later, three persons –Ram Avadh, Lalta and Bharat Ram were arrested. In 1969, Bharat Ram was convicted under IPC sections 379/411 (theft and retaining stolen property) while the other two were acquitted,” the report says.

Railways officials are now preparing to summon Rakesh Gupta the complainant and ask him if he has any evidence in the case. The police are also trying to trace if any of the three arrested persons is alive.

Officials are also frantically looks for police personnel and witness who were present at the time of the incident. A senior police official in Allahabad said, “It is near impossible to find someone who was there when the incident took place. It is exactly 50 years and most of the police personnel and either retired or not alive. The same is the case with the witnesses.”

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