The Madhya Pradesh government is going to recommend to the centre that central bureau of investigation (CBI) should probe the murder of city-based RTI activist Shehla Masood.

Opposition Congress, as well as Masood's family members had demanded a CBI probe.

She was found shot dead inside her car in the front of her residence in the posh Koh-e-Fiza locality two days ago.

The state government had decided to write to the centre recommending a CBI probe, highly placed official sources told PTI today.

Police have not figured out the motive yet, but it is suspected that she was eliminated by some of the powerful persons against whom she had filed RTI applications.

Just before her murder, Shehla had written on the Facebook: 'Gandhi: "the purpose of civil resistance is provocation". Anna has succeeded in provoking the government and the opposition. Hope he wins us freedom from corruption.

Shehla had earlier gone on a hunger strike here in Hazare's support. She was also involved in other causes, including wildlife conservation.

Sultan Masood, her father, told reporters earlier in the day that he expected no justice, being a "lower middle-class person", and did not think that police were probing the case sincerely.

He also alleged that in January this year, Shehla had filed a complaint with the Lokayukta that she feared threat to her life from IPS officer Pawan Shrivastava.