Crime Branch of Patna unit of the CBI will investigate the suspected death of Jharkhand Police SI Rupa Tirkey as the agency has registered a case in this regard.
The single Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi of Jharkhand High court had ordered the CBI to investigate this case after petitioner Devendra Oraon had pleaded before the court that the family has no trust in Jharkhand Police.
Sources in the agency confirmed the development adding that DSP of Crime Branch of CBI P. Gairola has been asked to investigate the case. A team of the CBI official is set to visit Sahebganj and Ranchi to examine the crime site as well as to record the statement of previous investigative teams as well as the family members of the deceased. The trial of this case will be held before the special CBI court in Dhanbad.
The deceased ASI was posted in Mahila Thana in Sahebganj district. On May 3 she was found hanging inside her room. Police lodged a case of unnatural death. Later on police converted it as a regular case and arrested her colleague Shiv Kumar Kanaujia for instigating her to commit suicide. But the family members’ alleged Sahebganj police are derailing the entire probe to save one Pankaj Mishra. The state government also started a judicial inquiry of the case and appointed retired high court judge BK Gupta to conduct the inquiry.
In another development the CBI investigating Dhanbad district judge alleged murder case has taken over another case related to theft of auto rickshaw.