By IANS,
Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) : The mother of the murdered minor girl in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday said only a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe would help solve the case and insisted that her daughter was gangraped by policemen.
Her demand comes after Chief Minister Mayawati earlier Wednesday expressed the apprehension that a CBI inquiry could botch up the case.
“There are attempts to conceal the facts…What is being shown is not true. I want a CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) inquiry into the case,” the girl’s mother told reporters here.
“I have seen my daughter’s body…She was raped. I am not satisfied by the state police investigations,” she said, insisting that policemen gangraped her 14-year-old daughter and killed her.
The girl’s body was found hanging from a tree June 10 night inside the Nighasan police station premises in Lakhimpur-Kheri district.
The death was initially dismissed by police as suicide, but a second autopsy confirmed the girl was strangled.
As many as 11 policemen at the police station and three doctors who conducted the first autopsy have been suspended.
Earlier in Lucknow, Mayawati said she was not opposed to a CBI probe into the murder, but feared the case “may be botched up” by the central agency.
“We don’t oppose the CBI investigating the case as such but the government fears the case may be botched up…,” the chief minister told reporters here.
At present, the Uttar Pradesh Police crime branch is investigating the case.
Ramchandra, an employee at the Nighasan police station, has been arrested while sub-inspector B.K. Singh and two constables – Uma Shankar and Shiv Shankar – have been booked for tampering with evidence.