Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat has directed Dehradun SSP to speed up investigation of the case related to the death of the son of AK Dwivedi, joint director tourism department. A 27-year-old youth, Ayush Dwivedi, was suspected to have died of food poisoning on April 7.
He was said to have consumed liquor after taking dinner at his friend’s residence. His condition started deteriorating by midnight the same day. He was admitted at CMI Hospital where he died. His friend Nitish Nautiyal was admitted at Jolly Grant Hospital where he is stable now.
Dalanwala police station in-charge inspector Anil Kumar Joshi said that based on written complaint from the aggrieved family, a case under section 304 of IPC was registered against Nitish and others in the Dalanwala police station.
A team has been formed to probe the case. The investigation officer has questioned Nitish and his other friends. Joshi said the case will be cleared soon. It should be mentioned here that as per the postmortem report of Ayush, he had died of poisoning.