Tainted govt officer, son commit suicide after wife, daughter
NEW DELHI: A former director general in the corporate affairs ministry and his son were found dead at their east Delhi home on Tuesday, two months after his wife and daughter killed themselves over his arrest for alleged corruption.
BK Bansal was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his bedroom by the family’s domestic help, a day after he visited the CBI headquarters to deliver a handful of documents. His 31-year-old son, Yogesh, was also found hanging in his room.
Domestic help Rachna had earlier discovered the bodies of Bansal’s 58-year-old wife Satya Bala and daughter Neha, 28, in two rooms of their home at Neelkanth Apartment in east Delhi’s Madhu Vihar area on July 19.
The CBI arrested Bansal on July 16 for allegedly accepting a bribe of `20 lakh from Mumbai-based firm Elder Pharmaceutical, which has been accused of duping 24,000 investors of `176 crore through a fraudulent investment scheme. He was accused of taking the bribe to scuttle an investigation against the firm.
The mother-daughter duo wrote in their suicide notes that they lost the will to live because of the humiliation when CBI officials searched their home and arrested Bansal.
Taking note of the unfortunate events in his family after his arrest, a special CBI court granted the former bureaucrat bail in August.
But on Tuesday, the 59-year-old Bansal and his son were found hanging in the same rooms where his wife and daughter hanged themselves.
Police said the duo left behind separate suicide notes in which they allegedly blamed CBI officials of harassment that forced the family to kill themselves within two months. Four photocopies of each note, written and signed in Hindi, and photos with contact numbers of their relatives were also recovered.
Addressing his five-page note to the CBI director, a police officer said, Bansal demanded the central investigating agency to initiate a probe into the “harassment” by CBI officials, including a DIGrank officer.
Yogesh’s two-page note contained similar allegations, the officer said.
“Sincethecasewasbeingprobed by CBI, we have forwarded the suicide notes to them. We have initiated inquest proceedings to ascertain if any criminality was involved the suicide pact,” said SBK Singh, the special commissioner of police (law and order, north).
Police suspect the father and son’s suicide pact was planned on Monday evening when they told Rachna to come late the next day and that the main door would be left open for her.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Hours before suicide, Bansal had visited CBI headquarters to deliver some documents