New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has finally requested the Centre to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the serial murders in Nithari.
Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav announced a CBI investigation on Friday. UP’s Principal Secretary (Home) S K Aggarwal has written to Union Home Secretary V K Duggal about 19 murders, but an agency report said the letter had not reached Duggal's office or the Department of Personnel and Training.
Under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, which governs the CBI, the state government should have sent a request under Section five of the law to the DoPT, which in turn would have issued a notification under Section six of the Act to the CBI for starting the probe.
Sources said the state's formulation appeared unusual because a request for a CBI probe into any case usually comes from the state in a simple and straight-forward manner and is not conditional.
Under attack over the state's handling of the serial killings at Nithari, the Chief Minister had said at a press conference in Lucknow on Friday that he was seeking a CBI probe so that independent investigations could be carried out.
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