BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Police on Sunday arrested the husband of a BSP MLA in reference to a homicide case of 2019, an official stated.
Govind Singh, the husband of Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP) MLA Ram Bai Singh who represents Patharia within the state’s Damoh district, was caught at a bus stand in Bhind district, he stated.
He’s an accused within the case of homicide of Congress chief Devendra Chaurasia in Hata city of Damoh in March 2019.
The Supreme Court docket lately took severe be aware of the Madhya Pradesh Police’s failure to arrest Govind Singh and directed the state’s Director Basic of Police (DGP) to arrest him instantly.
“We arrested Govind Singh from a bus stand in Bhind at round 6 am on Sunday,” the Particular Process Power’s Extra Director Basic Vipin Maheshwari informed PTI.
He might be taken to Damoh after completion of the due process, the official stated.
In the meantime, MLA Ram Bai Singh, in a video assertion, claimed her husband surrendered earlier than police at a bus stand in Bhind on Sunday morning.
She additionally launched two movies of Govind Singh through which he was seen saying he was going to give up to the police in Bhind.
He additionally claimed to be harmless and demanded a high- stage inquiry into the case.
The Supreme Court docket earlier this month stated information of the case point out that regardless of the registration of an FIR on March 15, 2019, whereby Chaurasia’s son alleged that Govind Singh was complicit within the homicide of his father, no steps have been taken by the investigating authorities to arrest him.
The state police subsequently introduced a reward of Rs 30,000 for info that might result in the arrest of Govind Singh, and later enhanced the reward quantity to Rs 50,000.
The SC had additionally requested the DGP to inquire into the allegations levelled by a further classes choose, who’s conducting a trial within the instances involving Govind Singh.
The choose has arrayed Govind Singh as an accused within the homicide case beneath the Legal Process Code Part 319 (energy to proceed in opposition to different individuals showing to be responsible of offence).
The choose in his February 8 order famous 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 homicide case in opposition to Govind Singh and others.
