RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Sept.4: The Jharkhand High Court has listed at least nine grounds which led it, on September 1, to direct the CBI to take the investigation of sub-inspector Rupa Tirkey’s death case, describing it as ‘rarest of rare case’.
It came to the fore when the high court order in this regard was uploaded today on its official website.
The court of Justice S.K.Dwivedi observed that the police took it as a suicide case though the injury was found on the body. The court observed that the viscera of the deceased were not preserved for forensic examination and on the very first day of the incident police came to the conclusion of it being a suicide.
The court also observed that police started two parallel investigations, one registering a case of unnatural death and another by lodging an FIR. Apart from this, the court observed the state police frequently changed investigating officers of the case. Not lodging an FIR against high ups on the complaint of the deceased’s mother and taking the statement of Pankaj Mishra in absence of FIR also made the court suspicious.
Other points, which prompted the court to order the CBI probe included the call details brought on record of interaction between the high officials and investigating officer with Pankaj Mishra, the pressure of dropping cases against close persons of Pankaj Mishra, suicide in naked position and photograph and video in pen drive.
The petition arose after Rupa was found hanging at Sahibganj on May 3 and the matter hogged the limelight with a suspicion that she was provoked to commit suicide by someone close to the chief minister.
Police arrested batch mate of Rupa in this connection saying he provoked her for suicide but very few bought the logic of police.
