CBI team collects media reports, spot photographs

The team members of CBI - Delhi unit special crime branch are looking for evidence into the mysterious death of 2007 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, Anurag Tewari and see if it could be established as murder. The investigators are trying to learn the facts that have been reported by the media.

“As according to their old investigation pattern, the CBI team members are collecting newspaper cuttings to understand the questions and loopholes raised by media in past one month about Anurag’s mysterious death,” said a source.

He said the CBI team had started its probe similarly in the cases of Sara Singh (2015) and Madhumita Shukla murder (2003). He said the CBI had utilised the newspaper cuttings and details published in it to list the points that needed to be answered during the investigation.

The source said the main investigation officer, additional superintendent of police (ASP), Santosh Kumar and his two associates would reach Lucknow by Tuesday and by then the four members will complete their homework of collecting initial data. The CBI team members had already collected a 536-page report prepared by the city police Special Investigation Team (SIT) that was probing the case before the CBI took over on June 16. They also collected around 50 photographs of the spot where Tewari was found dead, and the scene reconstruction carried out by forensic experts.

Anurag Tewari, 36, was found dead near the state guest house on Meera Bai Marg here on May 17. He was staying in room number 19 of the same guest house along with his batch mate Prabhu Narain Singh, who is posted as the vice chairman of the Lucknow Development Authority, for past three days before his death.

He was in Lucknow after returning from a mid-career training at Lal Bahadur Shashtri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie in April and also visited his home in Behraich. His family met chief minister Yogi Adityanath alleging foul play and lodged a case of murder with Hazratganj police on May 22. On the recommendation of the UP government, the CBI lodged an FIR in the case with its Delhi unit on Friday.