down by district judge at shahdol, police administration was profoundly afraid to act in the case as the government actions were stalled. BJP held a public meeting to condemn and demand shukla's and chief minister's resignation on moral grounds, Kailash Chandra Joshi then opposition leader charged "The government is deliberately suppressing facts in the case and shielding the influential accused". Government had ordered CID enquiry and officer in charge was transferred as district police captain Nandan Dubey, who later became state police chief, found him dubious. All these accusations were denied by shukla's sons by saying that their political rivals from opposition party at city and capital were trying to humiliate them and their father's image. Shukla himself insisted that the whole thing was a political game aimed at hurting him. Personal life and family Shukla's family has its roots as Pandit Ram Sundar Shukla son of Pandit Shyam Sundar Shukla, a patwari (d.1968), and his wife Buddhi Shukla, a housewife (d.1980). They had four sons and two daughters named as Ram Kishore Shukla, Bhagwati Prasad Shukla, Ganga Prasad Shukla, Durga Shankar Shukla, Archana Shukla and Leela Shukla. Shukla married a farmer's daughter, Kalavati Shukla, in 1944, they have issues, seven children - five sons and two daughters named as Banmali Prasad Shukla, Vindhyeshwari Prasad Shukla, Santosh Kumar Shukla, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Surendra Shukla, Kavita Shukla and Anita Shukla, among them Santosh Kumar Shukla is known as his political successor from Congress party. He is also deputy president of district congress committee of Shahdol district at Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee and others are officers in various state/central cadres, like Vindhyeshwari Prasad Shukla who is deputy secretary of legislative assembly of Madhya Pradesh, Vinod Shukla is assistant commissioner in Bhopal Municipal Corporation and Surendra Shukla who is zonal director at ministry of youth affairs and sports is also a spare time writer & poet. Some of his creations include Pratiksha, Mati ko naman, Mere desh ki mati. Also he had sung number of patriotic songs and played principal characters for DD Madhya Pradesh daily serials like Hasina Manzil. His fifth daughter in law Urmila Surendra Shukla is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 2008 batch of Madhya Pradesh cadre. She was a notable additional district magistrate, deputy commissioner of Bhopal who also had been deputy secretary of Government of Madhya Pradesh and additional director of higher education department of Madhya Pradesh,