New Delhi, Feb 12: A witness before the Jain commission of inquiry probing the conspiracy behind former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, has moved delhi high court seeking investigations into the ''murder'' of a key commission witness transferred from Delhi Police to CBIi's multi disciplinary monitoring agency. The petitioner, Ramesh Dalal, alleges that while key witness journalist Rajender Jain was ''murdered'' because he could expose the ''involvement'' of controversial Godman Chandraswami in the ''international'' conspiracy to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi, the city police had filed an 'untraced' report in the matter. Dalal, who is president of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination action committee, also seeks transfer of investigations in a case in which Jain was arrested for carrying a bomb in his vehicle. Though the police later realised Jain had been ''framed'' by others, investigations were conducted in such a manner by the police that all the accused, including Chandraswami, were discharged, he claimed.

The petitioner seeks that the MDMA should conduct the investigations at the earliest and submit periodic reports to keep the court informed.


He also prays that the CBI should initiate action against all Delhi Police and other officials who are found to have tampered evidence in the two cases and created hindrances in securing prosecution of the accused.

The city police had made all efforts to protect, ''obviously for ulterior motives, and not discharged its duty fairly, Dalal said and added that till the investigation of the two cases are handed over to an independent agency (CBI), the wider ''international'' conspiracy in the assassination can never be found out. It was also to probe the role and activities of those individuals named in the government's memorandum of action taken on the commission report. Bureau Report