Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar act on Sushant’s case
Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, August 4
With a note for his Maharashtrian counterpart Uddhav Thackeray, Bihar Chief Minister Nitin Kumar today recommended the Centre for a CBI probe into Sushant’s suicide case.
“Uddhav should have learnt from him,” Nitish Kumar exhorted. He was in the fag end of the third term as chief minister of Bihar. “I never interfered in any criminal case; neither implicated nor defended any criminal,” he said.
Earlier, the Bihar government recommended to the Centre for CBI investigation in the death of film star Sushant Singh Rajput after getting consent from his father Krishna Kumar Singh. The director general of police, Gupteshwar Pandey, had Singh who had filed an FIR at Rajiv Nagar police station here on July 25 seeking CBI probe.
Chief Minister said with the case being handed over to the CBI, scope of investigation would be wider. Bihar government through its lawyer Mukul Rohatagi would defend CBI case before the Supreme Court.
The CBI probe was necessitated as Mumbai police were not doing its job “properly”, he said. The Maharashtra police DG even did not respond to the repeated calls made by his Bihar counterpart, Kumar said, adding it was strange.
He regretted the leader of the four members Bihar police team, Vinay Tiwari, IPS was illegally detained and put into forcible quarantine in Mumbai to prevent them from carrying out investigations.
He alleged political interference in the working of Mumbai police Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray held a meeting when IPS officer from Bihar reached Mumbai and he was detained.”I did not talk to Maharashtra CM since it was not a political issue, Kumar said.
(The author is a seasoned senior journalist having vast experience working with The Times of India across different states in the country)
