The six-member team from Mumbai crime branch and Thane rural police on the second day of their investigation quizzed senior officials of Corporate Affairs and Communications Department of Tata Steel.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Deepak Devraj led the marathon interrogation of the officials, employees and other related persons of Tata Steel corporate affairs and communications department here for several hours in connection with the suicide of the former chief of the department Charudatta Deshpande. Sources informed that two officers on Tuesday morning head to Chamire Guest House of Tata Steel at Northern Town where Deshpande used to stay. The team members inspected his room and took stalk of the situation.
later all the six members of team quizzed the employees of the department for the entire day. Sources further informed that the interrogation is expected to continue on third day too. Deshpande, who had resigned from the company in the last week of April, committed suicide in one of his Mumbai flat in Vasai on June 28 by hanging himself. On the basis of a letter written by his friends and well wishers to Tata group chairman Cyrus Mistry, an in-house inquiry of the matter was already on. The crime branch of the Mumbai police was also investigating the matter separately. The letter to Mistry alleged that Deshpande took the extreme step following his alleged torture by some of the colleagues of the company.