The Uttar Pradesh Government has recommended a CBI probe into the suicide by Bollywood lyricist Santosh Anand’s only son Sankalp and his wife in Mathura on October 15.
Sources in the State Home Department here confirmed the recommendation of the CBI probe into the incident. “The State Government has sent his recommendation letter to the Centre for the CBI probe on December 12 and it is now for the Centre to decide the same,” disclosed SP (law and order) attached to the DGP office.
Addressing the mediapersons here on Monday evening, he claimed that till then, Mathura Police would continue to investigate the matter. It may be mentioned that the Mathura Police advocated a CBI probe following the demand of the family members of the deceased.
It may be mentioned that Mathura Police, which already recommended a probe by sleuths of Central Bureau of Investigation, to find out the circumstances which forced officer of loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan National Institute of Technology, Criminology and Forensic Science (lJNNITCFS), Sankalp to commit suicide, already burnt mid-night oil to extract some leads which helped them to nail down the accused named in the 10-page suicide note.
Sources said that the Crime Branch of Mathura police which is so far making investigation had tried to procure details of the ‘contracts’ in (lJNNITCFS), which led to bungling and later resulting into death of Sankalp.
Besides, the Mathura Police also tried to procure victim’s bank transactions to confirm that how and when money has been withdrawn and whom major payments have been made.