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Jaya seeks CBI probe on bus burning

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagham general secretary J Jayalalitha today urged Governor, Justice M Fathima Beevi to order a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the bus burning incident near Dharmapuri in which three under-graduate girls were charred to death.

In a memorandum submitted to the governor, Jayalalitha urged her to request Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to make a specific request to the Central government for a CBI probe.

Since it was a law and order problem, only the state government could ask New Delhi to institute a CBI inquiry, she added.

She said the AIADMK was perturbed about the Dharmapuri developments and asked the governor to use her good offices to expedite her request for a CBI probe into the ''human tragedy''.

Condemning the attack, Jayalalitha alleged that all the state authorities in Tamil Nadu, including Karunanidhi, his council of ministers and the police, were currently engaged in a vilification campaign against the AIADMK using the incident.

Jayalalitha said in the highly charged political atmosphere in the state, the ruling DMK was deliberately trying to besmirch the name of the AIADMK.

It was necessary that the whole truth came out to assuage the feelings of the people as otherwise it would vitiate the political atmosphere in the state on the eve of the by-elections, she added.

''There seems to be a deliberately orchestrated vilification campaign against the AIADMK with the purpose of politically isolating it,'' she alleged.

''This is a dangerous trend-setter for India's democratic process,'' she said.

UNI

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