Tiwari's brother's claimed that he had exposed a Rs 2,000 crore-food scam in Karnataka and he was under tremendous pressure from a lobby of politicians and IAS officers
A 2007 Karnataka batch IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh, Anurag Tiwari, was found dead under mysterious circumstances near the state guest house on Meerabai Marg in Hazratganj, Lucknow, on Wednesday morning. He was the Karnataka Commissioner for Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs.
Incidentally, Wednesday was Tiwari's 36th birthday and his parents had organised a mahamrityunjaya yajna at their home in Behraich. Before the havan could be performed, news of his death reached the family. Tiwari is learnt to have sought divorce from his estranged wife.
A panel of five doctors, who conducted his post mortem, could not ascertain the cause of death. The panel has saved the viscera and sent it to the forensic lab for test. Viscera is preserved only in cases when there is a suspicion that the person died due to some poisonous substance.
Tiwari's brother's claimed that he had exposed a Rs 2,000 crore-food scam in Karnataka and he was under tremendous pressure from a lobby of politicians and IAS officers. His family members are likely to meet Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to seek a CBI probe.
After a training session in Mussourie, Tiwari was staying in the guest house with batchmate Prabhu Narain, Vice-Chairman, Lucknow Development Authority. Tiwari had gone for his morning walk, and around 5.15 am, a few passers-by informed the Hazratganj police about a body lying on the road, 50 metres from the guest house. When police checked his purse, they found his IAS identity card. One of his batchmates claimed that he had stayed back in Lucknow in connection with a family dispute.
Lucknow SSP Deepak Kumar claimed that prima facie it looked like a case of accident or sudden traumatic cardiac arrest or brain hemorrhage. "There is one injury mark near his chin. It seems either he was hit by a speeding vehicle or experienced a sudden cardiac arrest or brain hemorrhage," said Kumar.
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