CBI LENS ON AKHILESH GOVT OVER JAWAHAR BAGH FIRING

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a fresh preliminary enquiry (PE) to probe the alleged inaction of Akhilesh Yadav-led Uttar Pradesh government in the Jawahar Bagh incident of 2016.

A four-hour-long gunfight between UP police and followers of Swadheen Bharat Subhash Sena had left 24 people dead, including two police officials, on June 2, 2016 in Mathura.

The probe agency believes that the state government did not take prompt action to avoid the gunfight despite several intelligence inputs from the district administration ahead of the police operation.

The operation was launched after Allahabad high court ordered removal of hundreds of tents and makeshift wooden structures from Jawahar Bagh which was illegally occupied by the cult under the leadership of Ram Vriskh Yadav, who was believed to have links with some senior politicians of the state.Yadav was killed in the gunfight.

Confirming the latest development CBI spokesperson RK Gaur said, “The PE follows an FIR filed by the CBI in the same matter on the directions of Allahabad High Court. The investigation in the FIR is ongoing and investigators will now examine evidences related to the fresh PE as well”.

A PE is conducted to ascertain the need for filing an FIR.