The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday a PIL seeking a probe by an SIT headed by a retired Supreme Court judge or the CBI into the July 13 incident in Patna in which a BJP leader died while taking part in a protest march against the Nitish Kumar government.
According to the Supreme Court website, a Bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta will hear the PIL filed through lawyer Barun Kumar Sinha on July 25.
Vijay Singh, a party leader from Jehanabad district, had died while taking part in a "Vidhan Sabha march".