Setback for NIA as HC dismisses its plea in opposition to recent probe into Jhiram Maoist ambush

By Express News Service

RAIPUR: In a setback to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Chhattisgarh excessive court docket on Wednesday dismissed the probe company’s attraction in opposition to the recent FIR registered by the state police into the lethal 2013 Jhiram Maoist ambush that eradicated a bit of the state Congress get together’s high management.

The state police had registered a brand new case in May 2020 into the incident on expenses of Sections 302 (homicide) and 120 (B) (prison conspiracy) of the IPC based mostly on the compliant lodged by Jitendra Mudilyar, son of Uday Mudliyar, a senior Congress chief who was amongst these killed within the Maoist ambush at Jhiram in Bastar.

A division bench of Justice R C Samant and Justice A S Chandel rejected the petition of the NIA that filed an attraction in opposition to the particular session trial court docket (Jagdalpur) and Chhattisgarh’s probe, giving the state police liberty to analyze the matter. The NIA had in 2020 filed an utility earlier than the particular court docket in Jagdalpur to take over the probe but it surely was rejected.

Sunil Otwani, further advocate normal, appeared earlier than the court docket on behalf of the Chhattisgarh authorities.

The audacious Maoist assault at Jhiram valley in Bastar killed the frontline Congress management in the course of the parivartan yatra on May 25 within the election 12 months of 2013.

The Chhattisgarh authorities and the Centre had been at loggerheads after the state police had registered a recent FIR and the ruling Congress authorities declared {that a} particular investigation workforce (SIT) will take over the brand new case to probe the conspiracy angle.

The Congress after coming to energy in Chhattisgarh in December 2018 constituted a SIT to analyze the Jhiram incident and sought the ultimate report of the case from the NIA to look into the conspiracy angle however the latter did not share it then ostensibly on the bottom that the probe remained underway.

Later Jitendra Mudilyar lodged an FIR at Darbha following which the NIA filed an utility in search of to take over the probe into the brand new case.