The CBI registered a preliminary enquiry on directions from the Jharkhand HC which wanted the agency to determine 'unanswered questions' in the death of the boy.
NEW DELHI: The CBI on Saturday registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) to probe the death of Abhishek Mishra, who drowned while on a picnic with Railway Minister
Lalu Prasad's daughter and two others.
The CBI registered a PE on directions from the Jharkhand High Court which wanted the agency to determine "unanswered questions" in the death of the boy, official sources said here.
The state police handed over all the documents and records of the investigations to the CBI, who after perusing them, registered a PE against "unknown persons" today.
Mishra, a student of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, had died on December eight last year while picnicking at Dassam Falls, about 40 km from Ranchi.
The High Court's direction came after it took suo motu cognisance on December 21 last year of a letter sent by Mishra's father Subhas Chandra Mishra, seeking a CBI probe
into his son's death.
During the hearing, the court had raised questions as to why all the three friends of the deceased including Railway Minister's daughter Ragini, had gone to state chief minister Madhu Koda's residence soon after the incident and why they disappeared thereafter.
Mishra's father, a doctor at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, protested the "urgency" shown by police in describing the drowning as a "natural death" just 15 minutes
after conducting an autopsy.
He claimed the autopsy report did not indicate that there were marks of external injuries on his son's body or that water was present in the respiratory system.
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