RTI activist Shehla murder bleak reminder of unsolved killings

It is alleged that a day before her body was found she had an altercation with some senior Congress leaders.

Investigations into her death went on for around three years and after that the police filed a closure report for the case.

The request of CBI enquiry made by her family members,including her brother,was never accepted.

As a result of this,no one knows till today whether Sarla was burnt by someone or she took her own life,sources said.

Another case was of Sangeeta Kaze,a BJP corporator in the city,who was also set ablaze at her residence in September 1998.

Initially,it was suspected that her husband Ashok could have been behind the incident but he committed suicide some days after the incident.

Sangeeta also succumbed to her injuries in a private hospital after death of her husband.

In this case also,police filed a closure report and hence there is no version of how and why she was burnt.

While Sarla was known to the influential leaders in Congress circles,Sangeeta wielded some power with the BJP.

The case of Shehla Masood is slightly different as the Madhya Pradesh government has already requested the Centre to order a CBI probe into the case as demanded by local Congress leaders.

Shehla was shot dead around 11 am on August 16 by an unidentified person in front of her residence in the posh Koh-e-Fiza locality,police said.