Dehradun: In a fresh twist to the Dehradun encounter case, police have recovered the bike that was found near the MBA graduate Ranbir Singh's body. The bike had gone missing during the investigations.
Now, according to the police, the bike was stolen from Delhi's Harsh Vihar area. The two-wheeler belonged to one Satyaprakash Goswami, a resident of Delhi, and it went missing on May 17.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken up investigations of the case. The Uttarakhand High Court has directed state police to present a status report in the case by Saturday.
The CBI probe was ordered after Ranbir's father Ravindrapal Singh and other relatives met Uttarakhand Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank at state secretariat on Monday afternoon and demanded a CBI probe into the incident.
They also demanded stern action against the "erring" police officials.
Earlier, the Dehradun SSP said that there was no evidence to show that Ranbir was a criminal. A case of murder was registered against an SSP and six policemen allegedly involved in this encounter.
Besides the main Opposition Congress, Rashtriya Lok Dal, the ruling BJP leaders and human rights activists supported the demand of Singh's family for a CBI probe into the killing after the autopsy report revealed that he was shot from close range and injury marks showed that he may have been tortured.
BJP president Rajnath Singh, an MP from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, reportedly spoke to Nishank over telephone over the issue and asked him to sympathetically consider the demand for a CBI probe.