The Uttar Pradesh police have filed an FIR against 38 persons, including the Director General (Home Guards) and an Inspector General, in the suicide case of Sankalp Anand and his wife. The police action follows a complaint by Delhi-based poet-lyricist Santosh Anand, father of Sankalp.
Sankalp had named them in a suicide note for forcing him to commit suicide along with his wife.
“The FIR, filed on Friday night in Kosi Kalan police station in Mathura, contains the names of DG Kamlendra Prasad and IG Sandip Mittal. The designations of other accused have not been mentioned, though their names are in the suicide note by Sankalp. The accused have been charged under Section 306 (abetment of suicide),” Deputy Superintendent of Police Atul Kumar Srivastava told journalists.Mr. Srivastava met Santosh Anand at his Delhi residence and took his written complaint before the FIR was filed. A police team visited the Institute to probe the case, collect samples of his handwriting and other documents.Mr. Prasad, a senior IPS officer of the U.P. cadre, was Director of Delhi-based Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science till July 2014 where Sankalp worked as a lecturer. Mr. Mittal was DIG (Administration) at the Institute that comes under the Union Home Ministry.On October 15, Sankalp (38), along with his wife Naresh Nandini (34) and five-year-old daughter Ridhima, had jumped in front of a train near Mathura. While the husband-wife duo died on the spot, the daughter survived with injuries.
A 10-page suicide note was found on Sankalp in which he had blamed 38 people for forcing him to commit suicide. He had also mentioned alleged misappropriation of funds at the premier institute.
Meanwhile, Mr. Santosh Anand has demanded a CBI probe into the incident fearing that the U.P. police would not do a fair job as its own officers were allegedly involved in the case.The Union Home Ministry has instituted a probe into the incident, while the Delhi police have sealed Sankalp’s flat in the Capital following a formal request by the U.P. police.
