Jodhpur, Dec 29 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday raided several places in and around Jodhpur in search of a Congress legislator’s sister named in the nurse Bhanwari Devi disappearance case, sources said.
An arrest warrant has already been issued against Indra Bishnoi, the sister of Congress legislator from Luni constituency Malkhan Singh Bishnoi.
It is believed Indra was close to Bhanwari Devi, who is missing since Sep 1 and remains untraced yet.
The CBI is also looking for another suspect, Bishnaram Bishnoi. The agency has announced a cash reward of RS.5 lakh for information on Bishnaram.
‘Raids were carried out in search of Bishnaram and Indra at several places in and around Jodhpur,’ a source in the CBI told IANS.
‘Indra has been summoned for questioning several times over the past 20 days, but she did not turn up. She is missing,’ he added.
Notices were posted to her residence warning her of legal action if she did not appear before the CBI for questioning, but she ignored all of these, sources added.
The CBI had claimed in a charge sheet submitted to a court earlier that Shahabuddin, Sohan Lal and Baldev Jaat had kidnapped Bhanwari Sep 1, strangulated her and then handed over her body to a gang of criminals near Newara Road in Jodhpur rural.
CBI sources claim that the gang was headed by Bishnaram Bishnoi, a known criminal who has over 35 police cases registered against him.
In the charge sheet, the CBI claimed that Sahiram Bishnoi had got Bhanwari Devi kidnapped at the behest of sacked Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna.
The nurse allegedly features in a CD showing Maderna in a compromising position with her. The CBI alleged that she was trying to blackmail Maderna on the basis of the CD, following which the politician hired Bishnoi to kidnap Bhanwari Devi.
The agency has already arrested Maderna, Malkhan Singh Bishnoi and the three kidnappers in the case. Sahiram Bishnoi, his friend Umesharam Bishnoi, Bhanwari’s husband Amarchand and Malkhan’s brother Parasram Bishnoi have also been arrested.
