Bhopal, April 18 -- A court in Bhopal district of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday ordered police to reopen the investigation into the 1997 death of a Congress leader, citing the incomplete closure report filed by police.
Congress leader Sarla Mishra died in a fire at her home in Bhopal in February 1997. Following investigation, TT Nagar police station filed a closure report in the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court on November 7, 2019, ruling the case as a suicide.
Sarla's brother Anurag Mishra filed a petition challenging the closure report in the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court in 2020. After hearing the case, the high court had ordered the Bhopal district court to hear the matter.
On Thursday, the district court ruled in...