Saqib Ali

The CBI today said that the weapon used in the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood has been recovered at the instance of Saqib Ali who is accused of hiring contract killers to murder her.

The sleuths of Special Task Force (STF) arrested a sharp shooter in connection with the high profile RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, from the Beconganj area of the city late on Tuesday night.

Over five years after RTI activist Shehla Masood was shot dead in Bhopal, a CBI court here today convicted interior designer Zahida Pervez and three other accused for the murder, and sentenced them to life imprisonment.

Learning from an alleged intelligence failure in the Shehla Masood murder case, Bhopal police is learnt to have decided to maintain detailed profile of more than 600 criminals of the district.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday raided the residence of Saqib Ali alias Danger, accused of hiring the contract killers to murder RTI activist Shehla Masood, and now in CBI custody. The CBI recovered some materials from his home.

Delhi CBI special crime cell will chargesheet the five accused, including alleged key conspirator Zahida Parvez, in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case before May 27.

The CBI SP Balaji has been entrusted with the investigations into the role of BJP MLA Dhruv Narayan Singh in the case.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) got a major success on Sunday with the recovery of .315 bore country-made brass metal firearm apparently used to bump off the famous RTI activist Shehla Masood last year, a car and a motorcycle.

Saba Faruqui, a friend of interior designer Zahida Pervez-- accused of masterminding the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood-- has been remanded to CBI custody for three days on Saturday,

The Special CBI magistrate Dr Shubhra Singh send Tabish Khan, the accused in Shehla Masood murder case, in judicial remand till April 11.Tabish was produced in the court of special CBI magistrate on Friday.

On March 30 when she was being taken back to Indore district jail from the court, Zaheda had accused the CBI of shielding the main accused but she chose not to take anyone's name.

Co-accused in the RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, Saba Farooqui on Friday accused the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of shielding BJP MLA Dhruv Narayan Singh.

Close on the heels of the death of an 11-year-old boy in Malerkotla town, which had sparked off a wave of protests, a 10-month-old child went missing on Friday night.

"I replied to all questions during the test. I have faith in the God, myself and CBI,"Dhruv Narayan Singh said after the lie-detector test.

"I have no idea of this development.I will let you know tomorrow," a top Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer investigating Shehla murder case, told TOI.

A team of central forensic science laboratory from Delhi is likely to reach Bhopal on Saturday to carry out polygraph-- lie detector-- test on the four accused and a BJP MLA Dhruv Narayan Singh, whose role in the sensational RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case is being probed.

"The CBI investigations are on to get into the bottom of the case. The agency will file the chargesheet against the accused in three months," CBI, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Hemant Priyadarshi, said.

RTI activist Shehla Masood's murder was the fallout of a soured love triangle involving a politician, highly placed sources in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told TOI on Thursday.