Jharkhand civil services topper, IRS brother & mom found dead | India News – The Times of India

RANCHI/KOCHI: A Jharkhand Public Service Fee (JPSC) examination topper whose profession obtained caught in a protracted authorized tangle and a CBI probe into the equity of the choice course of was found dead along with her IRS officer brother and their mom in a govt lodging in Kerala’s Kochi on Friday, six days after she failed to seem for a court docket listening to in Ranchi.
Shalini Vijay, assistant director within the Jharkhand social welfare division, was on depart since 2020. She and her brother Manish Vijay, further commissioner of central excise and customs in Kochi, are suspected to have entered right into a suicide pact together with their mom Shakuntala.
The matriarch’s physique was found lined in a white material with petals sprinkled throughout, main investigators to presume she died earlier than the siblings purportedly took their lives in separate rooms of Manish’s official quarters at Eechamukk in Kochi’s Kakkanad neighbourhood.
Investigators aren’t ruling out the likelihood of Shakuntala dying of any pure trigger earlier than her son and daughter hanged themselves. “We’ll know the main points for positive, together with the time of dying, solely after the autopsies,” mentioned assistant CP (Thrikkakara) P V Child.
Manish’s colleagues had been the primary to search out the our bodies once they visited the home to verify on him as he was imagined to resume work the day prior to this after a interval of depart however was incommunicado.
Police found a notice in Manish’ diary, dated Feb 15, with an instruction at hand over some paperwork to his youthful sister, who’s at present in Dubai. The notice mentions her cellphone quantity. “She shall be arriving quickly after the autopsies, which most probably shall be carried out on Saturday,” a police officer mentioned.
Shalini was the topper amongst 64 civil servants recruited by way of JPSC’s first mixed examination in 2003.
Some candidates who did not make the lower challenged the recruitment course of quickly after, declaring that many of those that cleared the examination had been linked to politicians or officers. Because the state probe dragged on, Jharkhand HC had the case transferred to CBI in 2022.
CBI filed expenses towards Shalini and the opposite recruits below sections 420 (dishonest), 423 (fraudulent documentation) and 201 (destruction of proof) of the IPC, amongst different offences, together with 13(2) and 13(1)(D) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The subsequent listening to is scheduled for Feb 27.
The Vijay household lived in a rented home in Ranchi till 2013. Shalini’s mom was once a university professor in Bokaro.