Ghaziabad: Anand Joshi, Under Secretary in the Union Home Ministry who was under scanner for FCRA notices to NGOs, on Wednesday went missing from his residence here, leaving behind a note claiming he was facing “mental harassment” and had made too many “enemies” while serving the nation.
After CBI registered a case against him, Joshi had on Tuesday claimed that he was pressurised by his superior to give clean chit to some of the NGOs who were served FCRA notices, including the Ford Foundation.
Anand Joshi was last seen around 2 am, following which he went to sleep, his wife Minakshi Sharma said at their residence in Indirapuram.
“When I woke up around 7.30 am, the main door was ajar and he (Joshi) wasn’t there. I later found the note he left behind,” she said.
In the Hindi note addressing his wife, Joshi said, “I have been going through extremely high mental harassment for the past few months but now the situation has got out of hand... At this moment I need peace and that is not possible here.”
