Chennai: Rejecting the Opposition demand for a CBI probe into the suicide by a 27-year-old woman deputy superintendent of police, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said the opinion that an investigation by the central agency will be honest and on the right path, need not be correct.
“The suicide of (DSP) Vishnupriya is not a very complicated case warranting a CBI probe. CB-CID would expeditiously handle the case in an impartial manner,” she told the Assembly while replying to DMK and CPI (M) members.
The woman DSP, who was handling sensational case of murder of Dalit youth Gokulraj, was found hanging in her office-cum-home at Namakkal on September 18.
Her family members and Opposition parties are seeking a CBI probe alleging that the officer took the extreme step following harassment by superior officers.
Citing the CBI probe ordered into the suicide of an IAS officer in neighbouring Karnataka, DMK member E. V. Velu said the DSP case should be probed by the central agency. “There is no need for a CBI inquiry into her suicide; this case and the Gokulraj murder case which Vishnupriya was handling, have been transferred to CB-CID,” she replied.
She claimed that it was “a wrong opinion” to say only a CBI probe would go in the right direction and not a CB-CID investigation. She listed cases probed by CB-CID such as the killing of a teenager Dilshan by a retired Army officer here a few years ago and how the State agency had successfully handled them.
She also mentioned cases handled by CBI like the harassment charges against Udumalpet police by a woman and said such cases were pending. “The opinion that only the CBI probe would be honest is not correct,” she said, pointing out that in a case that attracted the national attention, a complaint has been filed against a retired CBI director and the matter is being inquired into by the Supreme Court.
