Activist Suresh Gupta from Powai who exposed Hiranandani hospital's kidney racket in 2016 with the help of deceased Sunder Singh Jatav wants a CBI inquiry into the latter's death. Singh's dead body was found hanging to the ceiling fan at his Diva residence by Mumbra cops on January 8. While the cops claim it to be a suicide case prima facie, Gupta alleges foul play due to the blood stains found on Singh's residence floor.

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On Tuesday around 3 pm Mumbra cops broke open the door of Singh's flat on the third floor at Om Sai Mauli apartment near Metro hospital, Diva-Agasan road. "The neighbours called us informing about foul smell emanating from Singh's house and when we opened his house, we found him hanging to the ceiling fan," says senior police inspector Kishore Pasalkar, Mumbra police station.

According to cops, Singh, 25 might have hanged himself three to four days back. "However, no suicide note was found on his person or inside the one-room house," said a police officer.

Singh was the whistleblower in 2016 kidney racket scam of Hiranandani Hospital, Powai. After he donated one of his kidneys to a patient for Rs 5 lacs but was paid Rs 15000 he came in contact with Gupta. "He helped me with all the necessary documents which further helped me expose the racket," says Gupta, Mumbai president youth wing, Indian National Trade Union Congress. However, Gupta does not think that Singh was faint-hearted to have committed suicide. "He stood his ground during the course of the investigation," said Gupta. Gupta feels that this might be a case of murder masked as suicide and demanded CBI inquiry.