Maids found Bansal’s wife hanging in room

Neighbours of B.K. Bansal, former director-general, corporate affairs, who was arrested in a corruption case two days ago, suspect that humiliation caused by CBI raids on their residence led his wife and daughter to commit suicide on Tuesday.

After the CBI raids, the neighbours of the Bansal family in Madhu Vihar’s Neelkanth Apartment did not seen any of the family members. They suspect that family was humiliated by the CBI raids.

R.B. Mishra, security supervisor of Neelkanth Apartment, said, “A CBI team of 14 members raided Flat No. 3B of the society for more than 12 hours on Sunday. I had stopped the CBI members at entry gate on the first day for security reasons. When they showed their ID cards, I allowed them entry. They stayed in the flat from 3 pm to 5 am on Sunday and Monday for the raid.”

He added that all entry and exit gates of the society were sealed by the CBI personnel and two men were deployed at each gate during the raid that continued for two days. The CBI personnel left the flat with several documents that they had recovered from the Bansals’ flat.

The Resident Welfare Association of the Neelkanth Apartment said the Bansal family never interacted with neighbours and never attended any social gathering of the apartment complex.

“Two maids — Rachna and Arti — who were at the Bansal family residence, came rushing down to the RWA office and said that Bansal’s wife Satyabala had hanged herself in a room and her daughter was not opening the door of the other room,” S.R. Batra, the RWA secretary, said.

Two security guards rushed to the flat and found Satyabala Bansal was hanging from the ceiling fan and no response from her daughter Neha, who was in the other room. They immediately informed the police. When the police broke open the door, Neha was also found hanging from a ceiling fan.

The police team that visited the flat after the double suicide said that the living standard of the family was simple. There was seepage problem all over the flat and ceiling fans had not been cleaned since long. The family owns an old Maruti Zen that was maintained by Bansal’s son Yogesh.

“Maids said Satyabala Bansal and her daughter Neha ordered them not to disturb them as they were doing some important work. They went to their respective rooms and locked the doors. At 1 pm, when one of the maids went to Satyabala’s room to inform her that lunch was ready, she found the door was open. When she entered the room, she found her hanging from the ceiling fan. She then rushed to the RWA office,” said a police official.