Kataria falsely named in murder case: cm

 JAIPUR. rajasthan Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday came out in full defence of the newly appointed union minister of state for rural development Lal Chand Kataria, who has been charged of shielding the accused in a murder case and later organising a lethal assault on the deceased's son.

A school owner in Jaipur, Rajendra Prasad Chaudhary whose father Banshidhar was murdered in June last year, has been fighting a legal battle against Kataria for the past more than six months alleging that the Jaipur rural MP was providing political patronage to the killers. Demanding a CBI probe on the parliamentarian's alleged involvement in the murder, Chaudhary filed petitions before the high court and the Supreme Court, which issued notices to the state government a day after Kataria was sworn as a union minister on Sunday.