CBI takes over probe in Anand Pal encounter case

The CBI has taken over probe into the case of alleged fake encounter of gangster Anand Pal Singh in Rajasthan by re-registering the FIRs of the state police.
The CBI has registered three FIRs on the instructions of the Centre which had forwarded these cases to the agency, officials said.
The three FIRs pertain to the alleged fake encounter, the violent protests that followed and the death of a person, believed to be witness to the encounter, in the police firing.
Several groups in Rajasthan had demanded a CBI probe claiming it was a staged encounter.
Singh, wanted in several cases including of murders, was killed on June 24 last year (when he was 47 years old) in a police encounter at Malasar in Churu district.

His death triggered protests by the Rajput community to which he belonged.