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Mathura clashes : Supreme Court declines to hear petition for CBI probe

by IBNS 07 Jun 2016, 12:28 am

New Delhi, June 7 (IBNS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a petition seeking CBI probe into last week's Mathura clashes in which 29 people, including policemen, were killedl.

According to reports, a  vacation bench headed by justice PC Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy asked the petitioner  to approach the Allahabad High Court.

The apex court said that the petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay,   a Delhi BJP leader, -has not made any representation either to the state government or the Allahabad high court where a matter on the issue was already pending.