Jeeva murder case: Allahabad high court rejects PIL for CBI probe

LUCKNOW : The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has refused to transfer the probe of Sanjeev Maheshwari alias Jeeva murder case from the SIT constituted by the state government to the CBI or any retired judge.
A vacation bench of Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Jaspreet Singh passed the order on the PIL moved by local lawyer Moti Lal Yadav. The bench said that the plea was filed at a very premature stage as it had been only a few days since the SIT had been constituted in the matter. tnn
The bench has also expected that the SIT would conduct a fair and speedy probe.
The petitioner had said that the incident in the courtroom had stunned everybody and that it should be investigated either bby CBI or a retired high court judge. Disposing the plea, the bench has clarified that the plea can befiled at a later stage if the petitioner was aggrieved from the probe of the SIT.
Earlier, opposing the PIL, advocate general Ajay Kumar Mishra had argued that the state government was taking the incident seriously and hence on the very same day it constituted a high-level SIT to probe into the incident and the SIT had been conducting the probe and that the petitioner could not point outany reason as to why the probe should be transferred to any other agency.
In the course of hearing, the bench expressed that the deceased had been a dreaded criminal, but his murder in police custody could not be justified in any manner. In the hearing, the bench also expected members of the bar associations to co-operate in security checks on court campuses.