{"id":38120,"date":"2015-06-24T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T08:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38120"},"modified":"2015-06-24T08:12:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T08:12:19","slug":"hc-to-hear-pil-on-journalist-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-to-hear-pil-on-journalist-in-august","title":{"rendered":"HC to hear PIL on journalist in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37813\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37813\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-seeks-reply-on-pil-for-cancellation-of-up-cpmt\/allahabad-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?fit=351%2C143&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"351,143\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"allahabad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?fit=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?fit=351%2C143&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37813 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?resize=300%2C122&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"HC to hear PIL on journalist in August\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?resize=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/allahabad.jpg?w=351&amp;ssl=1 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HC to hear PIL on journalist in August<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Allahabad High Court today fixed first week of August as the next date of hearing on a PIL seeking directions for a CBI probe into the killing of a Shahjahanpur-based journalist.<\/p>\n<p>The date was fixed by a vacation bench of justices Arun Tandon and Anil Kumar after Additional Advocate General Bulbul Godiyal submitted that the matter was pending in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The bench said that in view of the submission, list the case in the first week of August.<\/p>\n<p>As per the earlier directive, the progress report in the case was filed today, which was taken on record.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner&#8217;s counsel Prince Lenin later alleged that not a single word has been said about the dying declaration in the report.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that prima facie the investigation was pointing towards suicide theory of journalist.<\/p>\n<p>On July 16, a vacation division bench of justices Shri Narain Shukla and Pratyush Kumar had directed the UP government to file progress report within one week in the murder of journalist Jagendra Singh.<\/p>\n<p>The court asked government counsel to inform it about the stage of investigation by June 24 along with their objections raised during course of hearing the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The order was issued on the PIL filed by an NGO on June 11.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist was allegedly set on fire by policemen on June 1 during a raid at his house at Vikas Colony in Sadar Bazar, Shahjahanpur.<\/p>\n<p>Singh died during treatment at a hospital in Lucknow on June 8.<\/p>\n<p>An FIR was registered against Minister of State for Backward Welfare Ram Murti Singh Verma and five others, including the policemen, at Puwayan Police Station of Shahjahanpur by the victim&#8217;s son Raghvendra.<\/p>\n<p>The FIR was lodged under sections 302 (murder), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation).<\/p>\n<p>The journalist had reportedly invited Verma&#8217;s ire by posting reports on Facebook about alleged &#8220;illegal&#8221; mining activities and land grabbing by the minister.<\/p>\n<p>The video footage of the dying declaration that went viral on news channels and social media showed Jagendra Singh saying, &#8220;Why did they have to burn me? If the minister and his goons had a grudge, they could have beaten me instead of pouring kerosene and burning me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Allahabad High Court today fixed first week of August as the next date of hearing on a PIL seeking directions for a CBI probe into the killing of a Shahjahanpur-based journalist. 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