New Delhi: The CBI has filed a case to probe the alleged suicide of the then deputy superintendent of police (DSP) of Tiruchengode in Namakkal district (Tamil Nadu), Vishnupriya. The 27-year-old Vishnupriya was found dead in mysterious circumstances at her house at Tiruchengode, Namakkal, on September 18, 2015.
Sources said, “The CBI has taken over investigation in the case in which FIR was earlier registered by the state police”. Declining to interfere with the Madras high court order, and dismissing the Tamil Nadu government’s special leave petition, the Supreme Court on October 25 told Tamil Nadu’s counsel that the death of the police officer was a very serious issue, as she was investigating some important cases. The high court was justified in ordering the CBI probe, said the SC bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice A.K. Goel. The Tamil Nadu government, in its special leave petition in the SC, said the probe was being done in a “fair and professional” manner and that the CB-CID was the state’s premier probing agency.
The agency has started collecting all relevant documents pertaining to the case from the state police, sources said. Vishnupriya was probing the murder of dalit youth Gokulraj, who was taken away by some non-dalits and was found beheaded the next day.
