New Delhi: Former bureaucrat BK Bansal, who was out on bail in a corruption case, today committed suicide along with his son, two months after his wife and daughter had hanged themselves for the same reason.
BK Bansal, who was a former Director General in the Corporate Affairs Ministry, and his son were found hanging from the ceiling of their flat in Neelkanth Apartment in east Delhi’s Madhu Vihar area. His son is believed to have been suffering from depression for some time.
Police said the two men were found hanging bodies around 9.30 am today. Their bodies, which were first discovered by their maid, have been sent for autopsy.
Two suicide notes were also found. Apparently, five set of suicide notes have been found in the house and each of the set had a family photo attached to it.
It was in the same house that Bansal’s wife Satyabala, 57, and daughter Neha, 27, had committed suicide two months ago after the CBI raided it.
They had left separate suicide notes, saying the CBI raid had “caused great humiliation” and that “they did not want to live after that”. They, however, held nobody responsible for their deaths.
Bansal was arrested two days before their death in multiple cases involving illegal assets and bribery. He was granted bail last month.
He was caught red-handed in a hotel while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 9 lakh for favouring a pharmaceutical company after the CBI carried out searches at eight locations in connection with the case during which the agency had claimed to have made cash recoveries.
A senior officer in the Indian Corporate Law Service, Bansal used to check and report on serious corporate frauds.
Jailed bureaucrat BK Bansal granted bail after wife, daughter commit suicide.
(Agencies)
