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  • MP police arrests BSP MLA’s husband in Congress leader Devendra Chaurasia murder case

    By Express News Service
    BHOPAL: Absconding in the March 2019 Congress leader Devendra Chaurasia murder case, BSP MLA Rambai Singh Parihar’s husband Govind Singh Parihar was finally arrested by the Madhya Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (MPSTF) in Bhind district on Sunday early morning.

    Carrying a bounty of Rs 50,000 on arrest, Govind was arrested from the bus stand in Bhind district on Sunday morning.

    The probe revealed that he was in Delhi prior to being arrested in Bhind and had also traveled to various places, including Rajasthan, Haridwar, Jammu, and Shimla before being held in Bhind, additional director general of police (ADG-STF) Vipin Maheshwari told The New Indian Express.

    Importantly, just a few hours before Govind was held in the Bhind district, two videos went viral over social media.

    In one of the videos, Govind is seen saying that it’s 5.30 am on March 27 and he is going to surrender before the police in a short while.

    In the same video, he is also heard saying that he is surrendering following advice by his wife Rambai (the BSP MLA from Patharia seat of Damoh district). Govind is also heard saying in the same video that he is surrendering in Bhind via an MLA.

    In the other video, Govind is seen boarding a car in which he is heard saying that he is on his way to surrender before the police at the bus stand in Bhind district.

    Bhind is around 425 km from Govind’s home district Damoh. Also, the local BSP MLA from Bhind seat Sanjiv Singh Kushwah too is a BSP legislator, who has an old association with the ruling BJP.

    As per informed sources, the local BSP MLA could have played a key role in Govind’s surrender and subsequent arrest on Sunday.

    Importantly, Govind’s arrest comes just two days after Supreme Court’s double-judge bench had directed the DGP MP to take necessary steps to ensure that the same bench’s previous order (March 12) is complied with before the next date of listing (April 5), failing which the Court will be constrained to take coercive steps in accordance with the law.

    The dramatic arrest of the BSP MLA’s husband within two days of SC’s directions also assumes significance due to the fact that by-elections to Damoh seat of Rambai is slated on April 17.

  • Madhya Pradesh: BSP MLA’s husband arrested in murder case

    By PTI
    BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Police on Sunday arrested the husband of a BSP MLA in connection with a murder case of 2019, an official said.

    Govind Singh, the husband of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Ram Bai Singh who represents Patharia in the state’s Damoh district, was caught at a bus stand in Bhind district, he said.

    He is an accused in the case of murder of Congress leader Devendra Chaurasia in Hata town of Damoh in March 2019.

    The Supreme Court recently took serious note of the Madhya Pradesh Police’s failure to arrest Govind Singh and directed the state’s Director General of Police (DGP) to arrest him immediately.

    “We arrested Govind Singh from a bus stand in Bhind at around 6 am on Sunday,” the Special Task Force’s Additional Director General Vipin Maheshwari told PTI.

    He will be taken to Damoh after completion of the due procedure, the official said.

    Meanwhile, MLA Ram Bai Singh, in a video statement, claimed her husband surrendered before police at a bus stand in Bhind on Sunday morning.

    She also released two videos of Govind Singh in which he was seen saying he was going to surrender to the police in Bhind.

    He also claimed to be innocent and demanded a high- level inquiry into the case.

    The Supreme Court earlier this month said facts of the case indicate that despite the registration of an FIR on March 15, 2019, wherein Chaurasia’s son alleged that Govind Singh was complicit in the murder of his father, no steps have been taken by the investigating authorities to arrest him.

    The state police subsequently announced a reward of Rs 30,000 for information that could lead to the arrest of Govind Singh, and later enhanced the reward amount to Rs 50,000.

    The SC had also asked the DGP to inquire into the allegations levelled by an additional sessions judge, who is conducting a trial in the cases involving Govind Singh.

    The judge has arrayed Govind Singh as an accused in the murder case under the Criminal Procedure Code Section 319 (power to proceed against other persons appearing to be guilty of offence).

    The judge in his February 8 order noted that he was being pressured by the Damoh superintendent of police and his subordinates.

    Chaurasia was killed in March 2019 after he joined the Congress.

    The police had then registered a murder case against Govind Singh and others.