Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Babulal Gaur said the decision as to whether further probe was necessary into Akshay’s death would be taken only after getting the autopsy report.
Advertisement
New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh government is writing to the high court-constituted SIT probing the Vyapam recruitment scam to thoroughly investigate the death of TV scribe Akshay Singh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Sunday, a day after he died under mysterious circumstances. “We have contacted his son. The family is on its way to Delhi”, said Deputy Commissioner of Police R.A. Sanjeev.
Sharma, who had checked into the hotel in Dwarka yesterday, was scheduled to fly to Agartala this morning for an official inspection of a medical college there, police said.
“The door to his suite was broken into in the presence of police”.
He also attacked Congress for “spreading lies” on the matter and said he did not find it worth to respond to its allegations. “Whiskey and some medicines were found near Dr Sharma’s bed”. “The India Today group stands by the family in their hour of crisis”, the statement added.
The body has been sent for autopsy.
Singh’s post mortem report is still awaited.
AMore than 40 people associated with the scam have died since 2013.
The AAP reaction followed Saturday’s death of a New Delhi-based television reporter, Akshay Singh, at Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh while he was covering the story. Shailesh, 50, was found dead at his father’s residence in Mall Avenue area of Lucknow on March 25 this year. “Around 1,800 people have been arrested in connection with the case, the prime among which was ex- Madhya Pradesh Education Minister Laxmikant Sharma and there is an FIR against the state Governor”, AAP leader Alok Agarwal said at a press conference here.
Advertisement
The body of Ms Damor, who had allegedly used fraudulent means to clear PMT exam in 2010, was found under mysterious circumstances in 2012, on the railway tracks in Ujjain.
