Bengaluru: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has strategically rejected the DK Ravi (IAS officer) suicide case and said that it can’t investigate the case within a fixed time frame.

CBI has mentioned in its letter to the state government that the state has no power to fix a time frame for the investigation. DK Ravi death case is a sensitive and complicated case and the CBI is not in a position to complete it within three months, the period fixed by the state government.

When media quizzed the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Pattanayak SK, he said that the state government had now issued a fresh notification without fixing any time frame.

DK Ravi  was found  hanging in his John’s Wood Apartment in Madiwala police station limits on March 16. Though the government stated that it was suicide, for purely personal reasons, the opposition and public  demanded a CBI probe as the ‘honest’ officer’s death was mysterious in nature  and he had fought against many powerful persons related to the sand and land mafias.

A senior official attached to Home department said that the preliminary investigation by the CBI officials has proved that it is a suicide case and the officer DK Ravi committed this due to his personal problems.

Once the previous notification was issued, the CBI  Special Branch officials from Chennai had  rushed to Bangalore and gathered preliminary information including autopsy test report, FSL report, Finger prints bureau report and the status report from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The senior officials of the CBI have conducted a meeting and found it a suicide based on the preliminary reports they attained.  They have also found family reasons, marital problems of the late officer and also his one-way love affair with the woman IAS batch mate.

An officer with CBI said that CBI will not conduct an investigation into other charges by the opposition including sand mafia, land mafia etc in this case within the fixed three-months time. There is no basic evidence or information of any outside force involved in DK Ravi’s death and to get into such issue, CBI needs much more time, So they have asked for more time in this case, he said.

At the same time, a retired CBI official told Newskarnataka that the CBI generally invokes delay tactics to avoid cases, which doesn’t  have strong evidence. There are many such cases in the CBI, where investigating agency could not achieve results and that’s why the CBI must have rejected the investigation of DK Ravi case, he added.

He also said that it is the prerogative of the state government to fix time frame or not based on the sensitivity of the case. The public demand may force the government to fix a time frame to give an answer for the public outcry. “The CBI may ask the state government to expand the time frame if it is needed,” he said adding that the agency can ask more time if it could not complete the investigation after the fixed time frame.

Chief minister Siddaramaiah, in Delhi, told media that the government will be issuing the notification again, which it has done.

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