Click to play videoBhopal: Madhya Pradesh government on Monday denied receiving any request from the Union Government for transfer of the murder case of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh pracharak to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) even as family members now allege that the state police conducted shoddy investigations and that some one close to Joshi was behind his murder.
Joshi's name has surfaced for allegedly masterminding the Ajmer and Mecca Masjid blasts. He was shot dead at point blank range near his house in Dewas on December 29, 2007.
The mystery of Joshi's killing, immediately after the Ajmer and Mecca Masjid blasts, is deepening. The Madhya Pradesh police closed the murder case of the RSS pracharak in May 2010. He had come under the scanner as his name figured as one of the main suspects in the two blasts.
CNN-IBN has learnt that Union Home Ministry has asked Madhya Pradesh government to reopen the case and even suggested transferring it to the CBI. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan says no such request has come.
"Firstly I have not received any such request. You are saying that the UPA Government is saying this. So who has said what is not clear," said Chauhan.
Joshi's family has also made a startling allegation that someone close to him killed him.
"We are not happy with the police investigations and it appears that he was killed by his own people," Joshi's maternal uncle Madan Mohan Modi said in Indore.
CNN-IBN had reported on the Sangh’s concerns about senior RSS ideologue Indresh Kumar. His links with Joshi are making the RSS extremely worried. Joshi's links with the already arrested Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Lt Colonel Shrikant Purohit make the situation even more sensitive.
It is one of the reasons why the Madhya Pradesh government has been extremely cagey in dealing with this case.
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