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My husband not involved, says Minister’s wife

LUCKNOW: A day after the alleged involvement of a Minister in the kidnapping of a Dalit girl of Faizabad embarrassed the Mayawati Government in Uttar Pradesh, the Minister’s wife denied her husband’s involvement in the incident.

Indu Yadav said here on Wednesday that her husband had fallen victim to the machinations of his political opponents.

Anandsen Yadav was sacked as Minister of State ( independent charge) for Food Processing by Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday. The Chief Minister referred the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

A Home Department spokesman said here that the letter recommending a CBI probe into the incident and alleging Anandsen Yadav’s involvement was sent to the Union Government on Wednesday.

Talking to journalists at her residence, Ms. Yadav said the family of the kidnapped girl Shashi was known to them and both were in touch with each other. The girl’s father, Yogendra Kumar, was an activist of the Bahujan Samaj Party and interacted quite often with her husband, she claimed.

Ms. Yadav maintained that in the past too Anandsen’s opponents had tried to implicate him in cases on false charges.

The Home Department spokesman said that following some information given by the former Minister’s driver, Vijaysen Yadav, the Faizabad police had stepped up investigations. Shashi’s body is yet to be traced.

The driver had reportedly said that the girl was with him and claimed that she jumped into the Gomti river in Sultanpur district.

According to an FIR lodged by her father on October 23, 2007 at the Ayodhya police station, Shashi went missing on October 22 from Faizabad where she was studying law.

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