Ranchi/Kochi: a topper of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) whose career was trapped in a prolonged legal entanglement and a CBI probe In the equity of the selection process he was found dead with her Official IRS brother And his mother in an accommodation in the government in Kochi of Kerala on Friday, six days after he did not appear for a judicial hearing in Ranchi.
Shalini VijayDeputy Director of the Jharkhand Social Welfare Department, I was licensed since 2020. It is suspected suicide pact Together with his mother Shakuntala.
The body of the matriarch was found covered with a white fabric with petals sprinkled everywhere, which led researchers to assume that it died before the brothers supposedly took their lives in rooms separated from Manish’s official rooms in Eechamukk in the Kochi Kakkanad neighborhood.
The researchers do not rule out the possibility that Shakuntala died of any natural cause before his son and daughter hanged himself. “We will get the details, including the time of death, only after autopsies,” said CP (Thrikkakara) PV Baby assistant.
Manish’s colleagues were the first to find the bodies when they visited the house to verify it, since it was supposed to resume the work the previous day after a period of license, but it was incommunicado.
Police found a note in the Manish newspaper, dated February 15, with an instruction to deliver some documents to their younger sister, which is currently in Dubai. The note mentions your phone number. “It will arrive shortly after the autopsies, which will probably be done on Saturday,” said a police officer.
Shalini was the Topper among 64 officials recruited through the first combined JPSC exam in 2003.
Some candidates who did not make the cut challenged the recruitment process shortly after, noting that many of those who cleared the exam were linked to politicians or officials. As the state probe was extended, Jharkhand HC had the case transferred to CBI in 2022.
CBI presented charges against Shalini and the other recruits under sections 420 (trap), 423 (fraudulent documentation) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the CPI, among other crimes, together with 13 (2) and 13 (1) (d) (d) (d) of the Corruption Prevention Law. The next hearing is scheduled for February 27.
The Vijay family lived in a house rented in Ranchi until 2013. Shalini’s mother used to be a university professor in Bokaro.
