Khinwsar legislator Hanuman Beniwal has alleged that Nagaur's Sawai Singh kidnap and murder case was as grave as Jodhpur's Bhanwari Devi kidnap and murder case since this, too, smacked of politicians' illicit relations.

Beniwal accused the local police of colluding with some senior politicians suspected to be linked with the murder that was executed earlier this month. "If the police do not arrest these politicians within a week, I shall meet the chief minister to demand a CBI probe," Beniwal said.

The local police have already arrested Singh's widow and two men for the murder that was said to be a fallout of illicit relations. Singh, a resident of village Matasukh in Nagaur district, was kidnapped and killed just a month after his marriage. "Police should get the phone call details of arrested men Siyaram and Mahesh, as this will prove the local politicians' involvement in the murder because of their illicit relations," alleged Beniwal. "It is a big sex scandal that the police needs investigate properly," the legislator said.

The Bhanwari Devi kidnap and murder case of September last year led to the sacking of the then water resources minister Mahipal Maderna from the Ashok Gehlot government's cabinet. Maderna and another Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi were later arrested for mastermind the government nurse's murder with whom the two were alleged to have illicit relations. The matter was investigated by the CBI and the case is currently tried at Jodhpur court.

Last week the Gehlot government suffered another blow when yet another of his party legislators from Barmer district was alleged to have illicit relations with an unidentified woman. Congress legislator and Gehlot's critic Sonaram Chaudhary had demanded CBI probe in the Barmer case, too.