Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh minister and MLA from Kunda in Pratapgarh, Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, received relief on Saturday after a special CBI court in Lucknow accepted the agency’s closure report in the 2013 murder case of deputy superintendent of police Zia-ul-Haq, who was then serving as the circle officer in Kunda.
“CBI initially submitted a closure report on July 31, 2013.
The court later directed investigation, but CBI moved the Allahabad high court against the order which the court set aside,” said Singh. “The agency again filed a closure report before the special court on Dec 22, 2023, stating there was insufficient evidence to proceed against Raja Bhaiya and the other accused in the case,” said Singh. Special judicial magistrate (CBI) Pratibha Singh passed the order after examining the material collected during the CBI’s fresh investigation and hearing the parties. Parveen Azad subsequently filed a protest petition challenging the report. Parveen then moved the Supreme Court, which directed the CBI to conduct a fresh investigation. In its order, the court found no sufficient ground to proceed against Raja Bhaiya, Gulshan Yadav, Hariom Srivastava, Guddu Singh and Rohit Singh. The court observed that after examining the material available on record and the CBI’s further investigation, it found no sufficient basis for the arguments raised in the complainant’s protest petition.