DCW gives notice to CBI over suicides

Seeking details about the action taken by Central Bureau of Investigation director Anil Kumar Sinha about the steps being taken to conduct an “unbiased” inquiry in the matter, the Delhi Commission for Women on Thursday served a notice to the agency. Ms Maliwal said that the CBI has been given 48 hours to respond.

Two months after his wife Satyabala and Neha committed suicide, former corporate affairs director general B.K. Bansal and his son Yogesh also hanged themselves on September 27. In the suicide notes purportedly written by them, Mr Bansal has alleged that a CBI DIG, two women officers and a “fat” havaldar of the agency had tortured his wife and daughter after which both had committed suicide in July.

“We have issued a notice to CBI director seeking details about the action that will be taken against the CBI officers who have been named in the suicide notes. Are they registering an FIR against the officers concerned in the matter We want details about how they are going to conduct a transparent and independent inquiry in the matter since the notes name a senior politician and high-ranking CBI officers,” Ms Maliwal said.

In the notice sent to the CBI, the women’s panel has sought to know whether a case of abetment to suicide has been registered against the officers named in the suicide note.

The notice has also dem-anded to know whether the “possibility of conduction of narco-tests on all those named in the suicide note” is being explored.

Ms Maliwal said that since Bansal wrote in his suicide note that the CBI was responsible for his wife and daughter’s suicides, they have sought answers from the agency.