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UP journalist burning case: SC seeks response from Centre and state govt on PIL
Ref: http://www.firstpost.com/india/journalist-burning-case-sc-seeks-response-centre-state-govt-pil-2393336.html
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Friday decided to entertain a plea seeking CBI probe into the circumstances leading to the withdrawal of a petition by a journalist's son, who had sought an independent probe into the alleged burning and murder case of his father in which a state minister and five others have been booked.
Jagendra Singh.

An application filed by a Lucknow scribe has claimed that the son of slain journalist, Jagendra Singh, was pressurised and threatened by the alleged killers of his father, following which he had written a letter to his lawyer on 23 July wishing to withdraw the petition.