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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ex-CM's son quizzed in Shehla murder case by Suchandana Gupta

Ex-CM's son quizzed in Shehla murder case by Suchandana Gupta

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published Published on Aug 28, 2011   modified Modified on Aug 28, 2011

The son of a former Madhya Pradesh chief minister has been questioned by police in connection with RTI activist Shehla Masood's murder. Two other BJP leaders have been sent notices to appear before the investigating team.

BJP MLA from Bhopal Dhruv Narayan Singh, who is also the son of former late chief minister Govind Narayan Singh, has been questioned about his relationship with Masood. Of the two other BJP leaders, one is said to be close to Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, the prime accused in the Malegaon blasts case. The other is a sitting Rajya Sabha MP. An IPS officer and a member of an erstwhile Chhattisgarh-based royal family are also to be interrogated.

Masood had stepped out of her home at 11am on August 16 to join Anna Hazare's Jan Lokpal bill campaign at the boat club in Bhopal. She was later found dead with a bullet wound in her neck in her car parked outside her home. Sources in the police department said most of the suspects are Masood's former friends who later began evading her.

Their rifts occurred after Masood became an RTI activist. Police also suspect that her murder could have been executed by a shooter from Bhind district in Chambal.

Masood ran an event management company, Miracles, until 2009. It organized a number of programmes hosted by the state culture department including a dance show performed by BJP MP Hema Malini in Bharat Bhavan multi-arts centre in Bhopal in July 2008. Sources in police headquarters revealed that at least one major RSS function held outside the statewas also organized with the help of Miracles. Masood got these assignments allegedly upon the insistence of Dhruv Narayan.

Her differences with IPS officer Pawan Shrivastava (now DIG Indore) started around this time. Shrivastava was then director, culture department. Masood acquiring government assignments through Dhruv Narayan allegedly upset Shrivastava, and he refused to clear her payments after which she complained to the state's DGP SK Rout and the home minister, claiming a threat to her life from Shrivastava.

During the interrogation, Dhruv Narayan admitted that not only was Masood in touch with him but he was also attached to her NGO Uday for a while. However, he said he later had differences with the RTI activist. "She used to speak to me often", Singh told cops. BJP sources, however, said that Singh had started avoiding her since early this year. Police are also probing why the friend of a prominent BJP leader had purchased property for her in the outskirts of Bhopal; he was instrumental in setting-up a meeting between the BJP leader and Masood.

The Times of India, 29 August, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ex-CMs-son-quizzed-in-Shehla-murder-case/articleshow/9776655.cms


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