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CBI probe must, reiterates BJP

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``Ghoulish crime in recent memory''

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday promised "action" that would shake the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government for "failing" to react on time to complaints by residents of a locality near Noida that their children were missing, and who have been found murdered.

Party spokesman Prakash Javadekar described the killing of more than a dozen children in Noida as the most ghoulish crime in recent memory.

As the Uttar Pradesh Government had admitted to indifference by the police, by suspending a few local policemen, the case should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Javadekar said, reiterating the demand made by the BJP president Rajnath Singh on Monday.

"The people of the neighbourhood have no faith in the police or the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government ... the Chief Minister must publicly apologise ... people have been battling the police daily ... in such a situation the police cannot be trusted to investigate the ghastly crime," Mr. Javadekar said.

If the State Government failed to seek a CBI investigation, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil should exercise his authority and direct the investigating agency to take over investigation, he said.

Asked why no senior BJP leader had visited the area and met the parents and families of the murdered children, Mr. Javadekar said that BJP MP of the area, Ashok Pradhan, was very active in helping the affected people.

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