LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday recommended a CBI probe into the Deoria shelter home case.The CM announced that a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) under ADG Gorakhpur will probe the case to ensure that there is no tampering of evidence.
Addressing a Press conference on late Tuesday night after receiving a preliminary spot report from the two-member high powered panel, comprising Additional Chief Secretary Renuka Kumar and ADG Anju Gupta, the CM said that the role of the district police in the unfortunate incident would also be probed.
He added that inaction of the district police after an FIR was lodged in the case on July 30, 2018 was questionable. “The failure of the police administration to act promptly against the NGO and their slackness called for a probe and a strict action thereafter,” he said.
Notably, the role of district cops who kept on sending the rescued girls and women to the shelter home despite knowing its illegal status and cancellation of its licence in June, 2017, has raised eyebrows.
Expressing his annoyance and sadness over the episode and assuring of strictest action against the guilty, the CM said that all the rescued inmates were being shifted to a shelter home in Varanasi.
Taking a tough stand, CM Yogi claimed that the state government had cancelled the licence of the NGO running the shelter home in June, 2017.
He added that despite repeated reminders to the DM concerned, no action was taken against the shelter home and it was allowed to operate illegally without valid papers.
“Consequently, the state government is sending a chargesheet to the then DM Sujit Kumar,” he said.
He maintained that other officials, including a former District Probation Officer was suspended with immediate effect and departmental proceedings were initiated against others for their laxity.
“They all will be charge-sheeted by the state government in the matter,” said the CM.