Shehla Masood murder: MP Tarun Vijay to be quizzed

Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Tarun Vijay will be questioned in connection with the killing of right to information act activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal on August 16, Madhya Pradesh police said on Thursday.

A police team from the state will soon visit New Delhi in this regard, it said. "Although it has been decided to question Vijay in connection with Shehla's murder, no date has been fixed for the visit of the police team to New Delhi," Bhopal Range IG, Vijay Yadav said.

Reacting to the development, Congress leader Digvijay Singh demanded that the case be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

"The way Masood has been killed is painful....Now that Tarun Vijay's name has cropped up, I believe the chief minister should hand over the case to the CBI," the Congress general secretary said.

Madhya Pradesh BJP President, Prabhat Jha told reporters that Vijay may have known Shehla but this was not enough to say that he was involved in her murder.

Prabhat said the Madhya Pradesh government has already asked the Centre to initiate a CBI inquiry into Shehla's murder. "I only want that the guilty are not spared and the innocent in the case are not punished," he said.