The Hindu : CBI nod for probe

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CBI nod for probe

New Delhi June 20. The Central Bureau of Investigation today gave its nod to carry out investigations into the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukhla after the agency's comment were sought by the Cabinet Secretariat on the case.

Highly-placed agency sources said the CBI, after consultations with its legal battery, decided to carry out the probe into the case after the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, recommended a CBI probe as the murder has become a big political controversy in the State after the name of the former BSP Minister, Amar Mani Tripathi, was linked to it.

The Union Home Ministry had received a notifcation from the Uttar Pradesh Government yesterday after which the same was sent to the Cabinet Secretariat for seeking an opinion from the CBI.

However, a notification for registering a case to the CBI by the Union Government was not issued till late this evening and was expected to be given by tomorrow after which the CBI would re-register the case filed initially by the State police.

The 24-year-old poetess was shot dead by two assailants in her Paper Mill Colony residence on May 9.

PTI

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