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Congress stages walk-out in Assembly

Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL: The Congress members led by Opposition leader Jamuna Devi staged a walkout in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Friday over a February 20 incident of loot in Tikamgarh district that came up for discussion through a calling attention notice.

In his reply to the notice moved by the Congress MLA from Newari, Brijendra Singh Rathod, Minister of State for Home, said that the Tikamgarh Police had registered a case of loot against former chairman of a State-owned autonomous corporation, Swami Prasad Lodhi, and some of his alleged accomplices on a written complaint by one Yogendra Kumar Jain stating that he had been robbed of Rs. 19 lakhs.

The Minister went on to inform the House that a search was on for Mr. Lodhi while his gunman, Om Sharan Pal, a police head constable, has been arrested along with one Ramesh Lodhi. The Opposition leader also drew the members' attention towards Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan's statement that Jamuna Devi had demanded a CBI probe into the incident. Jamuna Devi said on Friday that she had only forwarded to him a fax received from Mr. Lodhi's wife stating that she was a victim of police atrocities and the case should be handed over to the CBI. Later, Jamuna Devi told The Hindu that she never demanded a CBI probe into the incident.

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