Tainted officer, son kill selves 2 months 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 corruption.
The CBI arrested BK Bansal on July 16 for allegedly accepting a bribe of `20 lakh from Mumbaibased firm Elder Pharmaceutical, which has been accused of duping 24,000 investors of `176 crore through a fraudulent investment scheme. His son, 28-year-old Yogesh, a real estate dealer, was under the lens too.
Bansal’s 58-year-old wife Satya Bala and daughter Neha, 28, were found hanging from ceiling fans of two rooms at Neelkanth Apartment in east Delhi’s Madhu Vihar area on July 19.
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-yearold Bansal and his son were found hanging in the same rooms where his wife and daughter hanged themselves.
“We are probing the case. We will speak to relatives and neighbours. As of now, we do not suspect foul play. Their bodies have been sent for post-mortem,” said DCP (east) Rishipal.
Sources said hand-written notes accusing the CBI of harassment were found strewn in both rooms.
The CBI had arrested four people, including Bansal, the senior-most officer of the Indian Corporate Law Service, and Delhibased middleman Vishwadeep Bansal. The agency suspects Bansal was involved in other irregularities as well since he got elevated to the post of director general last year, said a source.
The CBI teams found `56 lakh and documents related to 20-odd properties in his home.