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CBI probe ordered
The government has ordered a CBI probe into the death of a 31-year-old trainee IPS officer at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad last year. Sources said Home Minister Rajnath Singh ordered an investigation by the central agency after he received a report of an internal inquiry conducted in this regard.
Drowning of trainee IPS officer in Police Academy pool
New Delhi: The government has ordered a CBI probe into the death of a 31-year-old trainee IPS officer at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad last year. Sources said Home Minister Rajnath Singh ordered an investigation by the central agency after he received a report of an internal inquiry conducted in this regard. The trainee officer, Manu Mukt Manav, died after drowning in the swimming pool of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) on August 28.
Manav, who hailed from Haryana and was allotted the Himachal Pradesh cadre, was reported to have died when some trainees, who had qualified for Indian Administrative Service (IAS), organised a get-together in the officers' club for their batch-mates in the Indian Police Service (IPS). The police had said Manav allegedly drowned when he was trying to cross the pool and a CPR (a life resuscitation technique) conducted by his friends present around could not revive him.
After the incident, SVPNPA's Director Aruna Bahuguna had issued an official order barring liquor to be served in the officers' mess or at any official event at this alma mater of IPS officers. Manav, who belonged to Hisar, was from the 2013 batch of IPS. The Rajendranagar Police had registered a case under CrPC Section 174 (suspicious death). The party was held to mark the completion of training. According to sources, the officer went to the swimming pool along with another trainee officer after the party .
NPA director Aruna Bahugana had ordered an internal probe into the incident. Four days after the death of the officer, his 55-year-old mother Kanta Bhardwaj shot off a letter to Prime minisiter, Home Minister and CBI Director to for a thorough probe into the incident. Bhardwaj said: “I have been told that the NPA has ordered an internal inquiry and an FIR has been lodged at a local police station. However, I do not trust these investigations. They will not be fair.”
She said in the letter that on August 28, she received a phone call from NRK Reddy, joint director, NPA, at approximately 1.45 am, informing her that her son had died around 11.30 pm by drowning in a swimming pool on the premises of the (NPA).
“To save their skin, the officials may not only tamper with facts, but also influence investigation. I have also heard several contradictory accounts of what happened on the night my son died and I do not know whom to believe. Therefore, I request you to order the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to immediately conduct an independent investigation into the death of an able officer of the Indian Police Service, who was soon to start his career,” Kanta Bhardwaj pleaded with the Prime Minister.
