Written by: Express News Service
3 min readLucknowJun 10, 2012 01:12 AM IST
First published on: Jun 10, 2012 at 01:12 AM IST
The CBI today interrogated two of the six youths — Ashutosh Shukla and Pankaj Mishra — arrested yesterday by the Gorakhpur police regarding their alleged role in the murders of CMOs Dr VK Arya and Dr BP Singh.
The CBI sources told The Sunday Express that they had been looking for Shukla and Mishra to verify the claims of the Lucknow police,which suspected them to have played a role in the CMO murder case. A team was sent to Gorakhpur to interrogate them and look into the police claim.
But,the sources said,the CBI will not seek remand of either of the two accused from the court. The Special Task Force (STF) and the Gorakhpur police have already questioned both of them yesterday. The CBI team will see if there was some important clue,which can help the investigation,the sources added.
Gorakhpur Senior Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Kumar said the police and CBI both have interrogated the accused,but they are yet to find any important clue. However,they are still trying to collect details about the role of the accused. Shukla and Mishra were sent to jail by the court today in the case of carrying weapons illegally,the SSP said.
Station Officer (SO) of Shahpur police station Diwakar Singh,who had made the arrests yesterday,said the CBI team arrived here at 11 am and interrogated Shukla and Mishra for over two hours.
Both the accused were later produced before the court in the afternoon. The court sent them in judicial custody. The SO also said he will be filing application in the court seeking custody of the two for interrogation and collecting information about their involvement in running racket and their role in other crimes.
When enquired about the four other accused arrested yesterday,Gorakhpur Superintendent of Police (City) Lallan Singh said the police recovered weapons from Shukla and Mishra. The other four,who were accompanying the duo,were released today,as nothing was found against them,Singh added.
Significantly,DGP Headquarters had yesterday released a press communique giving details about arrest of six gangsters —Ashutosh Shukla,Pankaj Mishra,Harikesh Yadav,Shams Tavrez,Jitendra Singh and Ram Surat Yadav – by Gorakhpur police. The communique also had said the police were tipped off about the gangsters planning to execute some major crime.
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