CBI set to give Raja Bhaiya clean chit in UP cop murder case

The CBI is all set to give a clean chit to former Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiya after he purportedly cleared a lie detection test in relation to the murder of Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq.

CNN-IBN reported that they had received confirmation from the CBI that Raja Bhaiya would be cleared, adding that the court would be informed about the development along with the result of the polygraph test soon.

He had undergone the lie detection test at a Lucknow laboratory in June and CBI sources had said then that Raja Bhaiya had not evaded any of the questions.

DSP Zia Ul Haq was lynched and murdered at Balipur village, 75 km west of Pratapgarh district headquarters, on 2 March 2013. He had gone there after the village head Nanhe Yadav had been killed by angry villagers along with his brother. Subsequently his wife, Parveen Azad, accused Raja Bhaiyya of being responsible for his death.

A subsequent report by CNN-IBN noted that there had been enmity between the two men, saying it had accessed a criminal history sheet that was prepared against Raja Bhaiya by the DSP. “Dated September 5, 2012, the criminal record states 47 cases against Raguraj Pratap Singh, aka Raja Bhaiya, since 1991”, the report said.

The CBI had registered four cases pertaining to the three murders and booked Raja Bhaiya in one of them.

With inputs from agencies