SC slams UP cops for shoddy probe in murder case of SP neta

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on UP police for shoddy investigation into the murder of Samajwadi Party member Ram Bihari Chaubey, set aside the final report closing the case against BJP MLA Sushil Singh and appointed an IPS officer to probe all angles of the case.
A bench of Justices R F Nariman, Navin Sinha and Krishna Murari took serious view of the lackadaisical approach of UP police in investigating Chaubey’s murder in December 2015, which the deceased’s son alleged to be a fallout of his father’s political rivalry with Sushil Singh.
Four months after the SC entertained the appeal filed by Amar Nath Chaubey, UP police closed the probe on January 30, 2019. After perusing the chargesheets against Singh and the closure report, the bench said, “We are constrained to record that the investigation and the closure report are casual and perfunctory in nature. The supervision note of the senior superintendent of police leaves much to be desired. The investigation appears to be a sham.”