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Thursday, Jan 27, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Sack YSR for fair probe: Naidu

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JAN. 26. The Telugu Desam Party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday charged the Rajasekhara Reddy Government with pursuing the single point agenda of eliminating political rivals. He said the party legislator, Paritala Ravi's murder case would not be impartial till the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, resigned or was dismissed.

Addressing a press conference, Mr. Naidu asserted that as long as faction leaders with criminal background were allowed to hold high constitutional posts in a democracy, brutal killings like that of Ravi would continue to happen. Neither would be the inquiry impartial nor culprits brought to book under such dispensation, especially when the Chief Minister's son, a Cabinet Minister and an Inspector-General of Police figured in the FIR.

Mr. Naidu appeared dissatisfied with the Government's decision to hand over Ravi's murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and reiterated his demand for a judicial enquiry by a sitting judge of the High Court or the Supreme Court.

`Victim of conspiracy'

He alleged that the murder of Ravi was the result of a conspiracy and executed by professionals. Recalling Ravi's suspicion over the involvement of policemen attached to a battalion, he said gunmen provided to him were changed frequently. These aspects had to be probed.

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