Wife, daughter of top govt officer arrested for graft commit suicide

Corporate affairs director general BK Bansal’s 58-year-old wife Satya Bala and daughter Neha, 28, were found hanging from ceiling fans of two rooms at Neelkanth Apartment in east Delhi’s Madhu Vihar area, police said.

Senior police officers of the East district said that they recovered two suicide notes from Satyabala’s room. Both the notes written in Hindi mentioned that no one is responsible for their death.

A police officer privy to the investigation said that the suicide notes were found in a spiral notebook kept at Satyabala’s room. In both suicide notes, it is allegedly mentioned that they were depressed with the raids carried out by the CBI at their flat on Saturday as well as Sunday. They said this left them depressed and therefore they decided to take such an extreme step.

Sources further said that Yogesh, BK Bansal’s 25-year-old son is missing since Friday. He is a property dealer. Recalling the exact sequence of events, Anil Jha, one of the security guards posted at Neelkanth Apartments where the Bansals lived said, “Two maids, Aarti and Rachna work in the Bansal household. At around 1.10 pm, Satyabala and Neha told Aarti that they were going to inside their respective rooms and that no one should disturb them. Then at around 1.30 pm, Aarti knocked at Satyabala’s door and found her hanging from the ceiling fan. She raised an alarm and came downstairs to inform me”

According to the police, they were informed at around 1.50 pm after which a team of cops rushed to the spot and took the women to a nearby hospital. Their bodies have been kept at the Lal Bahadur Shastri mortuary for post-mortem. 

Bansal was arrested by the CBI on Saturday for allegedly accepting a bribe Rs 9 lakh from representatives of a Mumbai firm to not order an investigation into allegations that it has duped 24,000 investors of Rs 176 crore.

“Earlier in July, Bansal had accepted Rs 11 lakh from the firm’s middleman as the first installment of the total of Rs 20 lakh he sought as bribe for favouring the firm,” said an official.

The agency had arrested Bansal, the alleged middleman Vishwadeep Bansal, along with two other people in the case. Bansal, a senior officer of the Indian Corporate Law Service, was promoted to the post of director general last year.