Mahant’s disciple Giri detained; guilty won’t be spared, assures Yogi
LUCKNOW/ALLAHABAD: All aspects related to Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad president Mahant Narendra Giri’s death are being probed and the guilty will not be spared, said UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday as police detained a disciple of the seer in Haridwar.
UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya too said his government is ready for every kind investigation into the matter. Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav demanded a judicial probe by a sitting high court judge. A plea seeking a CBI probe into the death was also sent to the chief justice of the Allahabad High Court. The seer, who was the president of the largest organisation of sadhus in India, was found hanging by his disciples at
Baghambari Muth in Allahabad on Monday.
A purported suicide note was also found, in which the seer had written that he was mentally disturbed and upset with one of his disciples, police had said.Adityanath, who rushed to Allahabad to pay his respects to the seer, told reporters that the case will be solved soon. Every single aspect connected with the case will be exposed and the guilty will be punished, he added.
Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, who paid floral tributes to the mahant, said the guilty will not be able to escape and his government is ready for every king of probe, be it by police of the CBI. Meanwhile, ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar in Lucknow said the state police detained the seer’s disciple Anand Giri on Monday night from Haridwar.