The wife and daughter of Director General Corporate Affairs BK Bansal, an additional secretary-rank officer in Ministry of Corporate Affairs, who was arrested by CBI in a bribery case on July 16, were found dead in their home on Tuesday.
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.
Sources said they left separate suicide notes, details of which were awaited.
The CBI on Monday said that they had arrested BK Bansal, who was dealing with matters related to alleged violations by a Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company, on charges of bribery.
An official said, “Bansal, who was detained by sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday while allegedly receiving the second lot of the bribe amount, was arrested on Sunday.”
CBI spokesperson, Devpreet Singh said that “Bansal was arrested for receiving a bribe of Rs nine lakh for extending favours to a corporate firm. The money was being given outside a Delhi hotel”.
Along with Bansal, a middleman named Vishwadeep Bansal, who worked as the distributor for Elder Pharmaceuticals, was also arrested by the investigating agency.
“We are deeply shocked and saddened by the incident. It maybe mentioned here that both the deceased were neither accused nor questioned or summoned in the ongoing investigation. The matter is being looked into by the local police,” said a statement from the CBI.
The alleged violations were detected during an inspection by the Regional Director of Western Region (Mumbai) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
An agency official, requesting anonymity, said they siphoned money to some Dubai-based companies and were also acquiring a company in Bulgaria.
The CBI investigation also revealed that the ministry official was holding 20 properties in Haryana’s Sirsa, Gurgaon, Faridabad as well as Delhi that have now been seized. All the properties were bought in the last 2 years and most of them were in his name as well as in the name of his wife and son.
