| The bizarre killing of over 15 children in Noida’s Nithari village, a horrific crime in itself, is fast turning into a political issue.
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| A procession of political leaders from Salman Khursheed of the Congress to Mayawati of the BSP has demanded Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s resignation over the failure of the police to check the crime.
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| Some, like friend turned political foe Raj Babbar and even the BJP, have said that the police are suppressing the organ smuggling racket behind the crimes in order to protect certain people.
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| Comes as it does close on the heels of the Kavita Choudhary disappearance/murder case, the case has given an early fillip to the election campaign in the state, due in May.
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| Using both these cases as examples of the complete breakdown of law and order and the allegations that large-scale graft had taken place during the police recruitment under the Samajwadi Party regime in the state, political parties are prepared to make a case for President’s Rule in the state.
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| BSP chief Mayawati, who visited Nithari today, said, “If Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has any ethical standards left, then he should resign or at the least the governor should recommend the imposition of President’s Rule in Uttar Pradesh.”
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| Salman Khursheed of the Congress had demanded a CBI inquiry since the role of the state police seemed suspect to him. “There is an urgent need for a CBI inquiry in this case,” he said yesterday as he visited affected families in the village.
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| “There seems to be the hand of human organ smuggling racket behind the killing of children. The police are not investigating records of nursing homes, where organ transplant facility is available. They should do so to expose the real story behind the killing,” Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Kesari Nath Tripathi said in Lucknow, a view shared by Agra MP Raj Babbar.
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| Kesari states that the police theory that the main accused was mentally disturbed could not be accepted as it was announced without medical examination.
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| He alleged that police was trying to hush up the case. |
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