9 Months On, BJP Leader’s Death Remains A Mystery
Bhopal:
Nine months after the unexplained death of Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Mamta Yadav, investigations involving the police of two states have produced no leads.
The body of Mamta Yadav is yet to be handed over to her family in Ashoknagar, some 200 km from Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal.
The investigation is mired in bureaucratic inertia between the police departments of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
Ms Yadav’s body, identified by a tattoo, was found in UP’s Prayagraj. The family says they want to cremate her per Hindu rituals but can’t.
“We want to perform her last rites with dignity. The police must give us her body,” said Raina Bai, the BJP leader’s mother.
Mamta Yadav went missing on September 11, 2023. She told her family that she was traveling to Prayagraj to recover ₹ 7 lakh from an acquaintance. She last spoke to her brother on September 21. After that, she vanished. Despite repeated requests from the family, the police allegedly delayed filing a missing person’s report, and their searches yielded no results for months.
In February, Rajbhan, Mamta’s brother, was called by cops to Prayagraj to identify his sister from photographs of unclaimed bodies. The body was found on September 26, 2023, and was buried by the police in Prayagraj.
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