Is CBI director Aswini Kumar mounting pressure on Orissa Home Secretary AP Padhi and DGP MM Praharaj to cover up the mysterious murder of IAS officer Jagadananda Panda and his family members?
The million dollar question has cropped in everybody’s mind after the Orissa cops delayed the investigation processes.
Orissa Police would a send a high level team to New Delhi to track down few more information in connection with the murder of IAS officer.
Panda, 54, was Friday found dead along with his wife, father and two sisters. Days before the incident, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team raided his office and houses to ascertain if he was involved and to what extent in the illegal immigration racket
The team would visit the residence of Panda, a 1983-batch Orissa cadre IAS officer and Protector General of Immigrants in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in its bid to find clues to ascertain the reason behind the extreme step taken by him
If necessary, the team could record statements of certain people in Delhi and also conduct inquiry at the office of Panda, sources said.
They said the ballistic experts from Bhubaneswar, who conducted thorough investigation at Panda's house in his native village Deogaon in Bargarh district, indicated that the slain family members of the 54-year-old officer had been shot when they were asleep.
There are indications that Panda's wife Surekha had been killed first, probably when she was sitting on a sofa, while his father and two sisters were shot subsequently before the bureaucrat pointed the gun at himself, they said.
The lone survivor is Panda's 22-year-old son Swapneswar, who is in a state of coma and undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar, police said.The IAS officer was apparently depressed due to CBI raids on his office and residential premises, they said.
Meanwhile, Panda's cousin Muralidhar, who is a special public prosecutor, refuses to buy police theory that the IAS Officer was stressed out by allegations of his involvement in a human trafficking scam, and therefore shot his family members and himself.
The circumstances at the spot are not compatible with the suicide theory,' he said.'I visited the spot, attended the funeral and saw their bodies in the hospital. Six bullets were fired one after other which can be done only by a sharp shooter,' he said.'Police should examine if there was any threat to the life of Jagadananda and his family. His son was posted in a private company at Noida New Delhi. Why was he asked to come home?'
Jagadananda was asked by authorities to go on leave. If he was guilty in the scam, he could have been suspended but that was not done,' Muralidhar said. Muralidhar said there may have been threat to Panda and his son's lives and that is why 'he released his service revolver from armory which he had deposited four years ago.'
The million dollar question has cropped in everybody’s mind after the Orissa cops delayed the investigation processes.
Orissa Police would a send a high level team to New Delhi to track down few more information in connection with the murder of IAS officer.
Panda, 54, was Friday found dead along with his wife, father and two sisters. Days before the incident, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team raided his office and houses to ascertain if he was involved and to what extent in the illegal immigration racket
The team would visit the residence of Panda, a 1983-batch Orissa cadre IAS officer and Protector General of Immigrants in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in its bid to find clues to ascertain the reason behind the extreme step taken by him
If necessary, the team could record statements of certain people in Delhi and also conduct inquiry at the office of Panda, sources said.
They said the ballistic experts from Bhubaneswar, who conducted thorough investigation at Panda's house in his native village Deogaon in Bargarh district, indicated that the slain family members of the 54-year-old officer had been shot when they were asleep.
There are indications that Panda's wife Surekha had been killed first, probably when she was sitting on a sofa, while his father and two sisters were shot subsequently before the bureaucrat pointed the gun at himself, they said.
The lone survivor is Panda's 22-year-old son Swapneswar, who is in a state of coma and undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar, police said.The IAS officer was apparently depressed due to CBI raids on his office and residential premises, they said.
Meanwhile, Panda's cousin Muralidhar, who is a special public prosecutor, refuses to buy police theory that the IAS Officer was stressed out by allegations of his involvement in a human trafficking scam, and therefore shot his family members and himself.
The circumstances at the spot are not compatible with the suicide theory,' he said.'I visited the spot, attended the funeral and saw their bodies in the hospital. Six bullets were fired one after other which can be done only by a sharp shooter,' he said.'Police should examine if there was any threat to the life of Jagadananda and his family. His son was posted in a private company at Noida New Delhi. Why was he asked to come home?'
Jagadananda was asked by authorities to go on leave. If he was guilty in the scam, he could have been suspended but that was not done,' Muralidhar said. Muralidhar said there may have been threat to Panda and his son's lives and that is why 'he released his service revolver from armory which he had deposited four years ago.'
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