The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will probe into the killing of Chhattisgarh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Bheema Mandavi from Dantewada District of Chhattisgarh, on the order of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA), reports The New Indian Express on May 22. According to the NIA website, the case has been registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Indian Arms Act and UA(P) Act 1967. The agency had registered the case under the title ‘death of Bheema Mandavi in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres in Dantewada District. The BJP MLA and four policemen were killed in a powerful IED blast triggered by the Maoists in Dantewada District on April 9. NIA in its ‘summary of allegation’ stated that the Union Government has received information about the case being registered at Kuakonda Police Station in Dantewada regarding the death of Bheema Mandavi along with four Police personnel. The Maoists took responsibility for the killing of Mandavi calling the attack as “retaliatory’ to avenge the deaths of their senior cadres at the hands of Security Forces (SFs) in Dantewada.