A CNN-IBN expose showing the accused in the Sabharwal murder getting VIP treatment in Ujjain Central Jail - even as key witnesses confessed to turning hostile under police pressure - is drawing sharp reactions.
Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijay Singh said, “This government in MP is totally being run by the RSS and ABVP being a student wing of RSS is totally involved and from the very beginning we have been approaching the courts that this case is fit to be given to the CBI.”
Earlier on Wednesday a CNN-IBN Special Investigation showed how Komal Singh, key eyewitness in the Sabharwal case was pressured to change his statement in the court.
"Iss jila ka SP humpe attack karta hai ki tunme hi mar diya hoga. Voh bolta tha ki tumhara college ke staff ne hi tumhara khilaf gavahi dedi hogi, (The CP now accuses us of being the killers of Prof Sabharwal. He says the college stuff have given testimony against us)," Komal Singh says.
This Investigation also went undercover into Ujjain central jail to meet the main accused Shashiranjan Akela.
Our team found Akela and his co-accused Vimal Tomar and Hemant Dubey getting VIP treatment in jail. BJP workers too seemed free to visit them even in jail.
The Opposition says the state is conspiring to protect the ABVP leaders who stand accused of Sabharwal's murder.
Leader of Opposition Jamuna Devi says, “yeah toh hum pehle bhi keh chuke hai.Mukha Mantri ji ne isko hadsa keh tha toh vahi se shuruvat ho gayi thi.ki iss case mai puri tarah lipa-poti ho rahi hai.aur police bhi lipa-poti kar rahi hai.unko VIP treatment diya ja raha hai jail mai.toh yeah toh sajish hai unko bachane ki. (The Chief Minister called it an accident. This proved that investigations are being botched up. Police is also involved. They are protecting the accused by giving them VIP treatment in jail.)
The accused get VIP treatment in jail, while eyewitnesses face police threats - the pattern is familiar.
The Sabharwal case shows just how badly our legal system needs an effective witness protection program, to make sure that political pressure does not prevent the delivery of justice.
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