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The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government on a plea seeking a CBI probe into a case of alleged setting ablaze and murder of a journalist. A State minister and five others have been booked under the case.
Besides the Union Home Ministry and the State government, a bench of Justices MY Eqbal and Arun Mishra also issued notice to the Press Council of India (PCI) and sought its responses to the PIL within two weeks.
The bench was hearing the plea filed by Delhi-based journalist Satish Jain, seeking a CBI probe into the death of scribe Jagendra Singh.
The latter was allegedly set on fire by police officials during a raid at his house in Saharanpur on June 1.
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