NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ordered
CBI to investigate the 2016 death by suicide of the wife of an additional district and sessions judge as her kin alleged that Chhattisgarh Police, under the influence of the judicial officer, closed the case despite several ante-mortem injuries found on her body.
The kin of the deceased, who was an assistant district prosecution officer at Dantewada at the time of her marriage to the judicial officer in Feb 2014, alleged that she was killed in May 2016 and the police refused to even register an FIR by terming the incident as death by suicide.
Their repeated complaints to the police brass went unheeded.
When her relatives approached the HC for a CBI probe, the court kept the petition pending for seven years before dismissing it. The HC said they could move the magisterial court under the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) seeking registration of FIR. The mother and brother of the deceased moved SC against the HC order.
Setting aside the HC order, the SC directed CBI to expeditiously carry out the probe and submit a report to the SC.