CJI rules on plea by Pul’s wife to probe note he left before suicide

The order, however, could not be served on Dangwimsai until late tonight. According to sources, the envelope is likely to be delivered to her on Wednesday.

The content of the order, however, could not be known since the administration has been directed to maintain utmost secrecy until the time Dangwimsai receives the order.

Injuly2016,thesupremecourt had quashed the imposition of President’s rule in the state, resulting in the restoration of the Congress government and ousting Pul. Pul had become Chief Minister in February last year with the support of BJP legislators after he left the Congress.

On August 9, the body of Pul, 47, was found in his official bungalow, which he was preparing to vacate. The note attributed to Pul is dated August 8, a day before his body was found, and is titled “Mere Vichaar (My Thoughts)”. The note, attributed to Pul, suggested that he was purportedly under extreme pressure to pay bribes to judges, top law officers and lawyers, as well other influential politicians.

On October 25 last year, days after his resignation, governor of Arunachal Pradesh Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa had told The Indian Express thatthenotehadprompted him to seek a CBI inquiry into the circumstances leading to Pul’s death.

When Arunachal contacted then, Pradesh DGP S Nithianandan had told The Indian Express: “We are going to file the investigation report on former chief minister Kalikho Pul’s death as soon as possible. But we have not yet investigated the 60-page notes that he left behind...the mandate given to us was a limited one - to know the nature of Mr Pul’s death. We don’t know if those pages are general notes or suicide notes. I have not read them.”

“Pul’s diary is part of the panchnama and it was duly sealed and handed over to the magistrate. The court is likely to go through our report and, on the basis of our report, if the court thinks it fit, it can ask us to investigate details of those notes,” Nithianandan had said.