Haryana home minister Anil Vij on Monday announced in the state assembly in Chandigarh that the probe into the murder of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) state president Nafe Singh Rathee and a party worker in Bahadurgarh near Delhi on Sunday would be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Replying to the Congress demand and adjournment motion on law and order in the state, Vij said: “Keeping in view the demand of the House, the murder of Rathee will be handed over to the CBI.
Earlier in the day, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta admitted the adjournment motion on law and order as the opposition Congress raised the killing of Rathee and demanded a high court judge monitored CBI probe into the incident.
Soon after Question Hour, senior Congress member Raghuvir Singh Kadian asked the Speaker to allow discussion on the adjournment motion on law and order and described Rathee’s killing as the state’s “first political murder”.
Congress legislature party leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said, “Why has Haryana reached this juncture? It is in the interest of the state that this case should be handed over to the CBI and a sitting high court judge should monitor the investigation.”
Earlier Vij said the case was being investigated by a special task force of Haryana Police.
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