CBI to launch probe into Bansal's allegations against officials in suicide note

On Wednesday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said it will initiate a probe into allegations made by bureaucrat BK Bansal in his suicide note, in which he accused certain CBI officials of torturing his family, and pushing them to kill themselves.

In a statement released today, the CBI said they received a copy of purported hand written notes of Bansal, which contains allegations against certain CBI officials in connection with the on-going bribery investigation against Bansal and others, and have decided to probe the allegations.

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Asserting that the CBI is fully committed to conduct an investigation in a fair and professional manner without harassment to any one and strictly within the parameters of the law, the statement added that if any violation is established during the probe, strict action will be taken against the CBI officials concerned and that Competent Court will be informed.

Along with the three officers named by Bansal, two mentioned in his son's suicide letter will also be examined by the CBI.

Meanwhile, Bansals's alleged suicide note which has gone public, has stated that his entire family was directly harassed by CBI, and that his wife and daughter were abused and tortured by certain official personnel.

In his suicide note, Bansal wrote that while he was in jail, two women officers from the CBI slapped his wife and daughter while their boss urged, "Torture these women so much that they are almost dead."

"These lady officers told my wife that they will chop me and my son into pieces and feed them to dogs," the note said.

Yesterday, Bansal allegedly committed suicide, along with his 25-year-old son at their home in Madhu Vihar in East Delhi.

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Bansal, then director general of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, was arrested on 16 July on charges of accepting Rs 9 lakh as a bribe from a pharmaceutical company that wanted to buy its way out of an investigation for its alleged illegal business practices.

The graft case is currently being investigated by the CBI.

"The son of BK Bansal was neither accused nor summoned by the CBI in the on-going bribery investigation," the statement clarified.

The investigative agency had searched their apartment and purportedly seized Rs 60 lakh cash, 20 property papers and details of 60 bank accounts.

Two days after Bansal's arrest, his wife Satyabala Bansal and daughter Neha were found hanging in separate rooms at their Madhu Vihar residence on 19 July.

Both women left separate suicide notes, saying the CBI raid had caused "great humiliation and they did not want to live after that". They, however, held nobody responsible for their death.

--ANI