Rajasthan minister resigns over murder allegations

Jaipur, Nov 13: Rajasthan Environment and Forests minister Ramlal Jat resigned on Saturday after he was targeted mysterious death case of a woman by some local media reports.

On Sep 27, Bhilwara Dairy chairman's wife Paras Devi, the victim was died in a hospital under mysterious circumstances.

The district administration was put under pressure by the minister and he forced the administration to conduct the postmortem in the midnight, claimed a local newspaper. Jat resigned as he was upset over the false allegations.

"The news has damaged my and my family's image and I am disappointed. So,I resigned," said Jat.

Jat is the third one in the Ashok Gehlot's ministry who resigned this year after Waqf Amin Khan Rural Development minister and Water Resoucres minister Mahipal Maderna.

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