New Delhi July 19, 2016 : In Delhi, the wife and daughter of a senior bureaucrat arrested on the weekend for corruption have killed themselves.
BK Bansal was posted in the Corporate Affairs Ministry; the CBI said it caught him accepting Rs. 9 lakhs in cash from a pharmaceutical company that wanted to buy its way out of an investigation for illicit business practices.
"We are deeply shocked and saddened by the incident. It maybe mentioned here that both the deceased were neither accused nor questioned or summoned in the ongoing investigation. The matter is being looked into by the local police," said a statement from the CBI.