IAS DK Ravi committed suicide; did not call female colleague 44 times: CBI

Karnataka May 21: IAS officer DK Ravi who was found hanging in his apartment in Banaglore under mysterious circumstances had drew a lot of criticisms on Karnataka government. He allegedly committed suicide on March 17 which raised eyebrows on the safety of IAS officers. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has now concluded the preliminary report of Ravi’s case. The Preliminary Inquiry report of the IAS officers claimed that he had committed suicide. CBI inquiring the case had questioned the doctors who conducted his postmortem and concluded that Ravi ended his life himself. The agency today clarified it is yet to arrive at any conclusion as far as the unnatural death of the 2009-batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer was concerned and that the probe is still on in this regard. Several officers of the state government who were apparently behind such leaks are under the scanner of CBI as it wants to identify those who are trying to sully the image of the deceased officer, the sources added. They said it was possible that people leaking these inputs to the media were actually acting on the instructions of some persons who feared exposure during the course of the probe. “CBI would like to state that all aspects/hypotheses relating to unnatural death of Ravi are being inquired into. The matter is under investigation and conclusion is yet to be drawn in the matter,” CBI spokesperson Kanchan Prasad said here today. Meanwhile, the agency has sent all the forensic evidence, including the photographs taken after Ravi’s death, his viscera sample and other evidence recovered by Karnataka Police to the Central Forensic Laboratory here for a detailed analysis.