Bhopal, May 21: The Madhya Pradesh government is planning to reopen an old murder case against BJP candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, a day after exit polls predicted a victory for her from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency.
The Congress-led government in the state will seek a legal opinion on reopening the murder case of ex-RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi, in which Pragya Singh was acquitted, state Law Minister P C Sharma said Tuesday. Joshi was shot dead in Dewas district on December 29, 2007. Thakur and seven other accused were acquitted by a court there in 2017 due to lack of evidence against them.
The state government will appeal in a higher court to reopen the Joshi murder case, Sharma said. The Dewas collector has been asked to submit a report in connection with the case, the minister added. "We will seek a legal opinion on that report and then take a decision about moving a higher court," he said. Sharma claimed that the then district collector took a decision on his own to shut the case, instead of sending it to the law department for legal opinion. "The district collector should have sent the report to the law department instead of deciding that there was no need to move a higher court," he said.
The BJP dubbed the move as revenge politics. "It looks like the MP government is going to take this decision because Pragya Thakur contested the election as BJP candidate against Congress' Digvijaya Singh. This is politics of revenge," state BJP spokesman Rajnish Agrawal said.
An accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, Thakur is currently out on bail. Joshi, also known as Guruji, was shot dead by bike- borne assailants in Chuna Khadan area of Dewas. He was reportedly evading arrest for his alleged role in the murder of a Congress leader.
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"INDIA THE WORLD CAPITAL OF MERCENARISM".
I am 75 years old Uttar Pradesh Non-Resident Indian ["UP NRI"], studied in India and the Western Countries, I have travelled and worked around the world, since 1975, I am residing in Canada. I have a Japanese wife and three children. My family members murdered my father on January 25, 2004, because my father refused to transfer his property to my younger brothers two sons because I am the sole investor of my father's property. My father's property was foreclosed by the Banks and private lenders in 2002, I redeemed the foreclosures with my hard-earned money. In 2017, my brother, his wife persuaded me to transfer the properties to my brothers two sons, I refused. My brother hired mercenaries from the family and from outside to murder me to steal my shares of property in India. I discovered murder is a very ordinary type of crime in India. I witnessed IAS, IPS, PCS and politicians committing heinous crimes in India and escaping justice due to corruption, bribery and influence peddling. India must maintain law and order to survive. In 2004 after completing my fathers funeral I went to the local police to file FIR for my father's murder,police refused by telling me that during the time my father was murdered I was in Japan, therefore the case is closed.
Respectfully submitted
Ramesh Mishra
Victoria BC Canada
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