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Congress wants Sabharwal case out of MP

NEW DELHI: The Congress Party on Friday charged the Madhya Pradesh government with colluding with an accused in the Sabharwal murder case, after Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reportedly met him in an Indore hospital.

“The Chief Minister has never made any bones regarding the innocence of the accused. This is a case of the State directly supporting the accused,” AICC spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said here.

The Chief Minister’s story that he went to inspect the hospital was a “fig leaf and a pretence,” the spokesperson said.

Mr. Singhvi said when Professor Sabharwal was brutally assaulted and killed the direct involvement of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the RSS and the BJP cadres was captured on candid cameras.

The accused were arrested only after a hue and cry was raised, but the stand of the prosecution was clearly in favour of the accused, he said.

Terming the conduct of the Madhya Pradesh government and the BJP as “reprehensible,” “collusive,” “opportunistic” and designed to exculpate the accused, he said the party demanded the transfer of the case outside Madhya Pradesh.

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