New Delhi: Observing that the suicide of a senior police officer is a serious issue, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with an order of the Madras high court transferring the investigation of the alleged suicide of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Vishnupriya, which was being carried out by the CB-CID of the State police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and A.K. Goel dismissed the special leave petition after hearing senior counsel K. Ramamurthy for the State and senior counsel P. Wilson for the respondent on whose petition the high court ordered the CBI probe.
The HC had entrusted the probe to the CBI acting on a petition from M. Ravi, father of the 27-year-old Vishnupriya, who was the then DSP of Tiruchengode in Namakkal district.
