SHIMLA: Slain BSP leader Kedar Singh Jindan’s wife Hemlata has demanded a CBI probe into his murder . On the morning of September 7, Jindan was first brutally assaulted and then run over by a Scorpio on the road heading towards Bakras village allegedly by people whom Jindan had exposed.Addressing mediapersons here on Saturday, Hemlata said that Jindan had informed the police about the threat to his life but despite complaint, the police did not provide security to him. She said that the medical report had confirmed murder but still upper caste people were building pressure to remove the provisions of atrocities act from the FIR. She said that the CBI should probe the case as she does not trust the investigation being conducted by the Sirmaur police. She also demanded proper security to the two eyewitnesses of the murder.In June, Jindan had held a press conference in Shimla, where he exposed the irregularities in providing BPL certificates in his village and alleged that Jaiprakash (the prime accused in the murder, who also drove the Scorpio over Jindan) had illegally obtained BPL certificates for his well-to-do relatives and on their basis they got government jobs.Jindan obtained all these details using the RTI Act 2005. After this expose, Jaiprakash’s relatives lost their jobs and they held this against Jindan. After his murder on September 7, the police had first nabbed two persons and then a third a few days later. A special investigation team headed by ASP (Nahan) Virender Thakur is investigating the case and had lodged an FIR under Section 302 (murder) as well as Section 3(2)(5) of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act.

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