Mangaluru, May 20,2017 : State Minister for Food and Civil Supplies U T Khader has said that his department would fully co-operate in the investigation into the case of suspicious death of Karnataka cadre IAS officer and Commissioner of Food and Civil Supplies Department Anurag Tiwari in Lucknow recently.
Speaking to reporters at Circuit House here on May 19, Friday, Khader denied the allegations that Tiwari was planning to expose a major scam in the Department. The officer had not informed about it neither orally or in writing, Khader said adding though Tiwari had joined duty on January 4 this year and was Commissioner for 138 days, he has actually worked for only 37 days and was on official leave for IAS training and to work as election observer in UP.