Bansal ‘suicide note’ blames CBI officials

NEW DELHI: Former bureaucrat BK Bansal and three members of his family were driven to suicide by the “mental and physical torture” inflicted on them by the officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), according to two purported suicide notes left by him and son Yogesh who were found dead in their East Delhi flat on Tuesday.

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The provenance of the two notes remained unclear. The police said they found signed photocopies of both — dated September 26, the day before Bansal and his son allegedly killed themselves — at the scene. The originals are yet to turn up. A prominent wire service received similar signed copies of the two purported suicide notes via courier on Wednesday; the envelope, sources said, bore the name of BK Bansal as sender. Copies of the two notes were circulating in media houses and on social media through Wednesday.

The notes name five CBI officials for allegedly driving the Bansal family to suicide. (HT is withholding their names until the original notes are recovered and authenticated after due process.)

Bansal’s 58-year-old wife Satya Bala and 28-year-old daughter Neha were found dead in the same rooms of the Madhu Vihar flat on July 19, having hanged themselves because of what their purported suicide notes called the humiliation of the CBI search after Bansal’s arrest on July 16 in a bribery case.

Bansal and Yogesh were found hanging in the same rooms on Tuesday.