Press Trust of India Posted online: Friday, December 05, 2003 at 1851 hours IST Updated: Saturday, December 06, 2003 at 1124 hours IST
Patna, December 5: The Bihar government on Friday decided to hand over the probe into the recent killing of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) project manager S.K. Dubey in Gaya to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Announcing this at a press conference in Patna, RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav said that the decision was taken by the government as Dubey was an honest and upright officer who was killed as he dared to expose the wrongdoings in the NHAI.
Yadav said that a Special Investigating Team (SIT) headed by an officer of the rank of a Deputy SP would continue with a parallel inquiry into the assassination of Dubey, who was killed by some unidentified assailants at Gaya on November 27.
The RJD leader also requested the Centre to provide adequate compensation to the family of the deceased, an IIT Kanpur graduate of 1994 batch. Yadav said his party would also request Chief Minister Rabri Devi to make ex-gratia payment to the slain engineer's family.
Distributing photocopies of a letter of Dubey addressed to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee which was received by the PMO on November 12 this year, Yadav said that the engineer was killed by vested interests as he had dared to highlight glaring irregularities in the execution of the golden quadrilateral, a north-south, east-west corridors project.
Yadav said, in an identical letter to the NHAI chairman Dubey had requested him to keep secret his identity, which was not done resulting in his brutal assassination.
The slain engineer had in another letter to NHAI chairman, copy of which was also released to the press, expressed his displeasure over leaking of his identity saying, this disclosure has exposed him to undesirable pressures and threats.
Patna, December 5: The Bihar government on Friday decided to hand over the probe into the recent killing of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) project manager S.K. Dubey in Gaya to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
