Dehra Dun, June 19: Uttaranchal Chief Minister N D Tiwari has ordered a CBI probe into the unwed mother episode which led to the resignation of the Revenue Minister Harak Singh Rawat. ''The Chief Minister has recommended a CBI probe into the whole affair,'' Information Minister Indira Haridayesh told here today.
Rawat yesterday announced his resignation in the assembly after a fact-finding house committee submitted a report to the Speaker Yashpal Arya after allegations of his having fathered a child by an unmarried woman hailing from Assam.
The committee in its report stated that the woman had named the minister as the father of her child.
Governor Sudershan Agarwal today accepted the resignation of Rawat on the recommendation of the Chief Minister, Raj Bhawan sources said.
Bureau Report