After meeting national shooter Tara Shahdeo and Ranchi Police at his official residence on Friday night, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren decided to handover her alleged Love-jihad case to CBI.
Soren, while speaking to the reporters after the meeting, said that Tara Shahdeo is a national sports person and the government will make sure she gets justice.”
While announcing that he will handover her case to the CBI for further investigation, Soren also made it clear that he is completely satisfied by the work of state police which not only investigated in the right direction, but also arrested the accused within four days of FIR being lodged.
He also said that IAS officers have also reportedly come up in the case and since several “things” had been unfolding and Shahdeo too desire a CBI probe into the case so it was decided to recommend it to the agency.
In her FIR, Shahdeo had accused that she was subject to alleged torture, exploitation, deceit and being forced by her husband Ranjeet Kumar Kohli alias Rakilbul Hussain to keep secret his faith in Islam.
The police registered a rape case against the accused.
Meanwhile, reports are doing the rounds that Tara and Rakibul will be questioned by the CBI team together today.
–PTI