The wife and daughter of arrested senior IAS officer BK Bansal have committed suicide, reports said on Tuesday. Two suicide notes have been found. Police are, however, verifying the suicide notes.
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Bansal, an additional secretary-rank officer in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, was arrested by CBI on July 16 for allegedly accepting bribe from a prominent pharmaceutical company.
CBI said the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MoCA) had ordered an inspection and during the enquiry they found violation of several sections of the Companies Act including violation of section 58A of the Companies Act 1956, which was amended in 2013 for not keeping the prescribed portion of 15% of public deposits in liquid form.
Along with Bansal, a middleman named Vishwadeep Bansal, who worked as the distributor for Elder Pharmaceuticals, was also arrested by the investigating agency, the officer said.
“Earlier in July, Bansal had accepted Rs 11 lakh from the firm’s middleman as the first installment of the total of Rs 20 lakh he sought as bribe for favouring the firm”, said a source. The company had allegedly approached him to stop an investigation ordered into allegations that they had cheated 24,000 investors of Rs 176 crore, the Hindustan Times reported.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had raided their flat on Saturday and Monday morning, a neighbour told IANS. All the properties were bought in the last two years and most were in the names of Bansal, his wife and son. CBI had carried out searches at eight locations in connection with the case during which the agency had claimed to have made cash recoveries.
