NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday composed to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to require a CBI probe to the”mysterious” death of a journalist who’d recently reported to the liquor mafia.
Even the Congress general secretary demanded that action be removed from the”nexus of spirits mafia and government” that she stated had taken root throughout the state.
Journalist Sulabh Srivastava died under”mysterious circumstances” at the night of June 13 at Pratapgarh district he was coming home after information reporting, Priyanka Gandhi stated in her letter.
A day before, on June 12, Srivastava had composed a letter to the other director general of police, Prayagraj zone, expressing concern regarding his family’s security and saying that the neighborhood liquor mafia was mad with his information report on illegal liquor, she explained.
In her correspondence in Hindi, she appealed for immediate monetary support into Srivastava’s household.
On Monday, Uttar Pradesh police registered a case of murder in the situation.
Srivastava, who employed for a personal news station and’d recently reported about the spirits mafia, perished in what seemed to be a street crash.
According to reports, he had been found dead close to a brick kiln and’d acute injury marks on his mind, ” said that the Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh.
“I ask you to have a CBI inquiry done in this issue.
Action must be removed from the nexus of spirits mafia and management that has taken roots throughout the nation,” Priyanka Gandhi stated in her letter into the CM.
There were reports of deaths as a result of spurious liquor from a number of areas in Uttar Pradesh.
By Aligarh into Pratapgarh, dozens have expired because of its intake, she explained.
In this kind of circumstance, that a journalist worries the liquor mafia implies that the principle of law from the nation has dropped its supremacy, Priyanka Gandhi alleged.
Before also, there were attacks on journalists in several areas, such as Ballia and Unnao, ” she explained.
Asserting that it’s the duty of the nation’s regulation and order platform to give safety to journalists, Priyanka Gandhi advocated the ministry to take certain measures towards providing justice to Srivastava’s household.
On Monday, Priyanka Gandhi had struck out in the Uttar Pradesh government on the writer’s death, accusing it of”nurturing jungle raj”.
“Sulabh Srivastava had gone news reporting into the Kotwali Lalganj place on Sunday and had been coming home late in the night.
He had been found critically injured close to the Sukhpal Nagar brick kiln and has been brought to the district hospital, where doctors declared him dead,” Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar had advised reporters.
His bike rammed to a pole close to the brick kiln beneath the Kotwali police station place at Pratapgarh district, authorities said.
Even the 42-year-old reporter had recently conducted a news story from the spirits mafia.
His wife Renuka Srivastava stated within her police criticism that her husband had been threatened to do a narrative contrary to the spirits mafia and the Prayagraj additional director general of police had been informed of it in writing but no effective action has been taken.