Supreme Court orders CBI probe into BSP legislator's murder
While responding to the plea of Pooja Pai, wife of the slain BSP leader, a division bench of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy asked the CBI to conclude the probe preferably within six months.
On February 3, 2006, the apex court had issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government and CBI in connection with the murder of the BSP legislator. Pai was elected to the assembly from Allabad West constituency.
The court had also issued notice to. then Samajwadi Party MP Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed, who were arrested by the police on charge of murder.
Pal and two others were shot dead and his wife and another person seriously injured by unidentified assailants in Allahabad on January 25, 2005.
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