New Delhi:
The battle between Uttar Pradesh Congress committee chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Chief Minister Mayawati may reach the court.
Rita Bahuguna has moved the Allahabad High Court demanding a CBI probe into the burning of her house.
She has asked for Mayawati to be made a party in the case. Bahuguna also wants the FIR against her to be quashed.
PTI adds: Earlier, alleging that ransacking and arson at her Lucknow house was a state-sponsored crime, Joshi demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident.
"I demand a CBI probe into the incident that occurred at my house in Lucknow (on the night of July 15). The party has also demanded it because it is a state-sponsored crime," the 60-year-old Congress leader said. Joshi was released from jail after being granted interim bail by a Moradabad court on Saturday.
Claiming that "the hooligans had come not to burn my house but to kill me", Joshi alleged, "The police burned down my house. It is for sure that this involved government hand with Mayawati's consent".
She said she was demanding a CBI inquiry as "I have no hope of justice from the UP government."
Joshi said she would be meeting party leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Digvijay Singh. "All I know is that the party is extremely concerned about my safety and they were extremely agitated about the law and order situation in UP."
The UP Congress leader, arrested on Wednesday night, was booked under section 153 A (delivering inflammatory speeches) and section 109 of IPC (using abusive language) besides provisions of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for making remarks allegedly defamatory to Mayawati in connection with her government's compensation to rape victims.