Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the brutal Holi day murder of police officer Narendra Kumar while trying to stop a tractor carrying illegally-quarried stones even as political parties slammed the BJP government over the killing and the victim’s father alleged a political conspiracy.
“I have given orders for a judicial inquiry so that a detailed report could be submitted in the incident,” Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told media persons after a meeting with senior officials in Bhopal. He said the state high court has been requested to appoint a judge to head the inquiry. The 32-year-old, 2009 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer was killed Thursday when the tractor-trolley ran over him when he tried to stop it in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district. He was the sub-divisional police officer of Bamor.
Kumar’s father alleged Friday that his son’s murder was a political conspiracy and that his son and daughter-in-law were “threatened” by a local legislator.
“Since a few days he (Narendra Kumar) was telling me that he was acting against illegal mining mafias and had seized several vehicles but they got released,” Keshav Dev, a sub inspector posted in Aligarh, told reporters at Gwalior.
However, Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta refuted Keshav Dev’s allegations, saying there were no reports of vehicles seized for illegal mining activities being released.
Calling the killing “very unfortunate”, the Congress accused the BJP of patronising corruption.
“We have been saying that this is the way the BJP fights against corruption. The whole country knows what is happening in Karnataka and now the Madhya Pradesh government has found a new way to fight corruption,” said Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi. (IANS)