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UP minister accused of abducting woman, resigns
Published on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 13:52, Updated on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 19:45 in 
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New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Food Processing Minister Anand Sen Yadav on Tuesday tendered his resignation from the Mayawati cabinet following the alleged involvement of his close relative in the murder of a girl student in Faizabad district.
This is going to be a test for UP Chief Minister Mayawati, with the incident occurring just a week after the state government proposed a tough law to fight crime.
Anand Sen, minister with Independent charge, is accused of abducting and killing Shashi, a 22-year-old Bahujan Samaj Party worker.
The UP government has now recommended a CBI probe
into the incident, Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh said at a press conference Tuesday evening.
Quitting from the state cabinet on moral grounds, the minister in his resignation letter to Mayawati said that he was resigning on moral grounds but was innocent in the case.
The minister tendered his resignation soon after leader
of the opposition Mulayam Singh Yadav alleged in the state assembly with the that the Mayawati government was protecting the minister.
The victim's father, a resident of Faizabad, alleges his daughter knew Anand well and disappeared on October 22. When he tried to lodge a complaint against Anand, the police allegedly refused and instead filed charged against the minister’s driver, an infamous criminal called Vijay Sen.
Anand rejected the allegations and claimed his rival party was trying to frame him. "I had already apprised my party leaders that there is a conspiracy to target me. The Senior Superintendent of Police of this region and the district administration are working for the Samajwadi Party here," he alleged.
Anand, MLA from Milkipur in Faizabad district, is accused in at least eight criminal cases including that of murder and attempted murder.
Anand was in jail when Mayawati decided to make him a minister, and he took oath after being released on bail. His father, BSP MP Mitrasen Yadav, is under probe in the human trafficking racket that came to light in April 2007 following the arrest of BJP) MP Babubhai Katara in Delhi.
The state government last week introduced Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Bill (UPCOCA), which seeks to eliminate organised crime in the state through stringent punishment and fast-track courts.
“The proposed legislation would primarily deal with contract killers, kidnappers, gun-totting contractors, hawala traders, enemies of economic structure, fake drug traffickers and liquor Mafiosi”, Mayawati had said after tabling the Bill.
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