AGARTALA : Senior Congress leader Sudip Roy Barman on Sunday emphasised the party’s demand for a judicial inquiry into the unnatural death of DGP Anurag Dhankar in order to clear “many doubts” regarding the top police officer’s demise.

A three-member team headed by West Tripura SP Namit Pathak has been constituted to probe into the death of Dhankar.

Dhankar, who had led the CBI probe into the alleged Rs 13,000-crore Punjab National Bank fraud involving diamantaire Nirav Modi and the reinvestigation into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, was found hanging in the washroom attached to his chamber at the state police headquarters here on July 20.

“From day one, we have been demanding a judicial probe by a sitting judge of High Court of Tripura into the unnatural death of the DGP, keeping in mind the circumstances leading to the recovery of his body,” he told a press conference at the Congress Bhavan here.

“The condition in which we saw his body at the morgue was as if he was in deep sleep without any visible wounds generally found in such cases. We strongly believe that a team led by an SP-rank officer cannot clear many doubts surrounding the incident. That is why we want a judicial inquiry into the unnatural death,” Roy Barman said.

Terming the state government’s move to investigate the case by a three-member team led by Pathak “an eyewash”, the Congress MLA also claimed that the “honest DGP was heckled over some issues days before his death”.

“The people of the state are also upset over the role of our high court. When the legislature, bureaucracy and media succumb, it is the judiciary that comes out and stands for the cause of people’s rights.

“Unfortunately, we have not seen the high court take any suo motu cognisance in many incidents in the state since former Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Gupta’s tenure ended,” he said. (Source: PTI)