VIJAY DEO JHA
Ranchi, June 13: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed before Jharkhand High Court on Monday regarding the sectarian violence in Ranchi that took place on Friday. The petitioner Pankaj Yadav has requested the court to hand over the probe to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
He has made Jharkhand government, Chief Secretary, Ranchi DC, Ranchi SSP, NIA, Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax respondent of this case. He has also made Asaduddin Owaisi, President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen a respondent.
The petitioner has said that the violence in Ranchi was an outcome of a larger well-planned conspiracy that Ranchi Police or Jharkhand Police can’t investigate and take to a logical conclusion. Quoting the media he said that the handlers of violence from the Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh secretly visited Ranchi to instigate crime.
He has requested the court to direct the premier agencies to investigate the preparation, execution, and sources of funding of the targeted violence initiated by thousands of the people who are having funding outside the state and these outsiders were there in the organizing violence in the name of opposing Nupur Sharma. The petitioner said that the background of the deceased and injured persons may be checked for a deeper investigation.
