The teen domestic help, who found the BK Bansal, the Corporate Affairs Secretary, and his son hanging from the ceiling, had also found his wife and their daughter in the same position when they had committed suicide.
Bansal and his son Yogesh had returned to Delhi from their hometown Hisar around 15-20 days back after finishing last rites rituals of Satyabala and Neha.
Bansal was arrested on 16 July by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for accepting bribe from a prominent pharmaceutical company. The teenage domestic help, Rachna, told NDTV:
Yogesh would say wherever he went, people would point and say he is BK Bansal’s son and he would feel bad. I told them to move out, but he said that the CBI told him ‘wherever you hide, we will find you’.
Police found photocopies of their suicide notes, attached with separate passport size photographs of all the four family members, strewn across the 3-BHK flat. However, the original letter is yet to be found, police said.
The case is under investigation. Further, the son of BK Bansal was neither an accused nor was he summoned by the CBI in the ongoing bribery investigation.RK Gaur, CBI Spokesperson
The letter, reportedly, named a CBI officer and blamed him for harassment of the Bansal family. However, police have ruled out filing a case of abetment to suicide as of now since there is “no criminality” established till now against the officers named in the suicide note.
While the CBI maintains that no family member, besides Bansal himself, was summoned or questioned, the teenage maid named Rachna (16) told police that she had overheard Bansal telling “someone” that Yogesh had been called for questioning on the day they were found hanging.
Bansal was granted interim bail from 20 July to 21 August and thereafter he was granted regular bail on 30 August, CBI said.
(With PTI and NDTV inputs)
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