New Delhi: BJP leader Vinay Katiyar on Wednesday demanded a CBI inquiry into the gruesome serial killings at Nithari village in Noida.
Katiyar, who visited Nithari village earlier on Wednesday, said the state government should resign on moral grounds.
He added that the aggrieved families be given a compensation of Rs 10 lakh.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Supreme Court had declined to entertain a plea seeking CBI inquiry into the macabre serial killings.
However, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is being accused of showing negligence in the investigations, said the UP police is competent enough to handle the case.
"CBI probes got delayed many times due to which evidence got destroyed. I have constituted a two-member committee comprising Secertary (Home) Arun Kumar Sinha and ADG (law and order) A C Sharma. It will submit its report to me. There is no need for a CBI probe now," news agency PTI quoted Yadav as saying in Lucknow.
If needed, CBI probe would be ordered later, he added.
Meanwhile, seven of the eight families of the victims - who were given a compensation of Rs two lakh by the state government - on Tuesday returned their compensation cheques in protest.
However, the aggrieved families have now been returned their cheques. They are demanding that they be given jobs and houses as compensation.
But Meerut Divisional Commissioner Dev Dutt Sharma denies that families returned their cheques.
He said the families of victims are now demanding jobs and houses for themselves as compensation.
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