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Maharashtra Home Minister Condemns Centre’s Decision To Transfer Probe Of Bhima-Koregaon Violence To NIA
NIA Headquarters, Delhi (Pulakit Singh/Wikipedia)
The Centre on Friday (24 January) decided to transfer the Maharashtra’s Bhim-Koregaon violence case to the National Investigative Agency (NIA), reports Times of India.
The development comes after reports emerged that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar wrote to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the police action in the case.
The Pune police had arrested nine activists in the case for their alleged links with proscribed CPI (Maoist).
It should be noted that section 5 of the NIA Act empowers the MHA to take over investigation of a case without permission or recommendation of the state government.
However, the decision by Centre to transfer the case from Pune Police to NIA has left the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in state fuming.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, who belongs to NCP, has condemned the Centre’s decision and said that the move by MHA was against the Constitution.
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