BHOPAL: An embarrassed police today recorded the statement of an IPS officer in the Shehla Masood murder case while efforts are on to take the statement of an MLA of the ruling BJP. The police are obviously uncomfortable.
"We have taken statement of Pawan sir," a senior police official told TOI, "Dhruv ji ka statement bhee ho jaayega" (Dhruv Singh's statements would also be recorded), a senior police official told the TOI sheepishly.
Pawan Shrivastava is IG and posted at Ahilya Bai Police Training Centre (ABPT) in Indore while Dhruv Narayan Singh is a BJP MLA from Bhopal. Both are influential. While Shehla had written a letter to the director general of police of MP three years ago complaining about Shrivastava, Dhruv was also close to her and his mobile call details have led to the police to quiz him.
Before she turned an RTI activist, Shehla ran an event management company and Shrivastava was heading culture department. Shehla's company's payment was due from the dept and there was some dispute. Shehla had alleged that when insisted on her dues, Pawan had threatened her and "she fears risk to his life from him". After she was found dead on August 16, Shehla's family wanted the police to investigate the Shrivastava angle.
Police sources said the call details from the two mobiles of Shehla Masood had shown long conversations with Dhruv Singh. The police said that they were asked few questions like for how long they knew Shehla, and for how many times they had talked, whether she had ever said something that can be correlated with her murder etc.
"We have quizzed a large number of people who were related to Shehla, either personally or professionally. The statements of these two are also being taken in the same way," said Bhopal SSP Yogesh Choudhry.
Meanwhile, the family is still waiting for the CBI to take over the case as recommended by the MP government a few days ago.
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