A court here Saturday sent four policemen to five days' Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody in connection with the 2006 alleged staged shootout killing of suspected criminal Dara Singh on the outskirts of Jaipur, a lawyer said
A court here Saturday sent four policemen to five days' Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody in connection with the 2006 alleged staged shootout killing of suspected criminal Dara Singh on the outskirts of Jaipur, a lawyer said.
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"The court of additional chief judicial magistrate, CBI, has sent the four policemen to five-day CBI custody," advocate A.K. Jain, who represented two accused told IANS.
The CBI arrested the policemen Friday evening and presented them in the court here Saturday, said an official.
The accused officials, inspector Nisar Ahemad, sub-inspector Rajesh, sub-inspector Satyanarayan Godara and assistant sub-inspector Surendra Singh, were in the police team which killed Dara Singh.
Sources said that three more policemen, including an assistant superintendent of police-rank official, were detained by the agency in this connection Saturday and interrogated.
They added that the CBI was trying to prove that Singh's killing was a fall-out of rivalry between two gangs of liquor mafia, one of which had the patronage of a BJP leader.
Informed police officials said that the BJP leader was also under purview of the agency's probe.
The family members of the accused policemen gathered in the court and alleged that the arrests were politically motivated. They shouted slogans against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Sikar remained the den of Dara Singh until he was gunned down by a team of Rajasthan Police's Special Operations Group (SOG) on the outskirts of the state capital Oct 23, 2006.
His widow registered a case at Mansarovar police station in Jaipur against four police officers, including Additional Director General of Police A.K. Jain and Inspector General of Police A. Ponnuchami, and alleged that the shootout was staged.
The Supreme Court in the first week of January slammed the CBI for slow pace of investigation and directed it to submit a status report in the case.
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