Probe in Vyapam observer’s death calls it accident
BHOPAL: Odisha’s government railway police (GRP) on Sunday said the investigation so far in the death of former Madhya Pradesh IFS officer Vijay Bahadur suggested he was killed in an accident but they were waiting for the postmortem report to formally establish the cause of death.
However, a whistleblower in the Vyapam scam still believes that the retired IFS officer was killed under mysterious circumstances and a CBI inquiry should be conducted into the incident.
Superintendent of railway police in Raurkela, Karam Sey Kawar, said the investigation into the case had almost come to an end and an autopsy report was awaited.
“Investigation into the case, so far, suggests it was an accident. We have recorded statements of Bahadur’s family members and some passengers (in the compartment in which he was travelling). We are waiting for the postmortem report, which is expected by Monday evening,” Kawar said.
RTI activist Ajay Dubey, who wrote a letter to chief minister Naveen Patnaik demanding handing over the probe to the CBI, said Bahadur was a central observer in at least 17 examinations conducted by Vyapam in the past four years of which two were rigged and being investigated by the CBI.
The retired officer’s body was found on a railway track near Jharsuguda in Odisha on October 15.