08-29-2006, 08:14 PM
Did he get too close to truth?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ACP probing 7/11 blasts found dead along railway track
TN Raghunatha | Mumbai
A senior officer attached to the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) investigating the 7/11 serial blasts, was found dead under mysterious circumstances along the railway tracks at Dadar in north-central Mumbai late on Monday night. The victim was identified as Vinod Bhat, an Assistant Commissioner of Police with the ATS.
<b>While a case of accidental death has been registered, the police are not ruling out the possibility of a suicide.</b> However, the police did not find any suicide note on the person of the deceased. As of now, they are not suspecting any foul play.
A post-mortem was conducted at the Sion Hospital on Tuesday. The report of the post-mortem is yet to be released. <b>An efficient officer and a person of integrity, 54-year-old Bhat was recently hand-picked from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to be a part of the ATS. He had earlier been part of the team that investigated the 1993 serial blasts. His new assignment included compilation of statements, evidences and preparation of charge sheets. </b>
While refusing to pinpoint that Bhat's death was a case of suicide, ATS chief KP Raghuvanshi, however, said here on Tuesday that he might have had personal problems.
Senior police inspector MP Vhaval said the Dadar Railway police had registered a case of accident. Official sources said that Bhat was not carrying his service revolver.
Bhat, who lived with his wife, son and daughter at Prabhadevi in north-central Mumbai, had left his official vehicle at Dadar Railway Station saying that he wanted to go to Chembur and that he would catch a suburban train.
<b>What has lent credence to the suicide theory is the fact that Bhat had given his golden ring and chain to his driver to be handed over to his family members.
Similarly, he had also given a packet of sweets for the driver's family, while going inside the Dadar railway station after parking the vehicle. </b>
Vhaval said that the statements of Bhat's family members were yet to be recorded. The investigators, are, however, baffled, as to what he was doing along the tracks in the night. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->ACP probing 7/11 blasts found dead along railway track
TN Raghunatha | Mumbai
A senior officer attached to the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) investigating the 7/11 serial blasts, was found dead under mysterious circumstances along the railway tracks at Dadar in north-central Mumbai late on Monday night. The victim was identified as Vinod Bhat, an Assistant Commissioner of Police with the ATS.
<b>While a case of accidental death has been registered, the police are not ruling out the possibility of a suicide.</b> However, the police did not find any suicide note on the person of the deceased. As of now, they are not suspecting any foul play.
A post-mortem was conducted at the Sion Hospital on Tuesday. The report of the post-mortem is yet to be released. <b>An efficient officer and a person of integrity, 54-year-old Bhat was recently hand-picked from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to be a part of the ATS. He had earlier been part of the team that investigated the 1993 serial blasts. His new assignment included compilation of statements, evidences and preparation of charge sheets. </b>
While refusing to pinpoint that Bhat's death was a case of suicide, ATS chief KP Raghuvanshi, however, said here on Tuesday that he might have had personal problems.
Senior police inspector MP Vhaval said the Dadar Railway police had registered a case of accident. Official sources said that Bhat was not carrying his service revolver.
Bhat, who lived with his wife, son and daughter at Prabhadevi in north-central Mumbai, had left his official vehicle at Dadar Railway Station saying that he wanted to go to Chembur and that he would catch a suburban train.
<b>What has lent credence to the suicide theory is the fact that Bhat had given his golden ring and chain to his driver to be handed over to his family members.
Similarly, he had also given a packet of sweets for the driver's family, while going inside the Dadar railway station after parking the vehicle. </b>
Vhaval said that the statements of Bhat's family members were yet to be recorded. The investigators, are, however, baffled, as to what he was doing along the tracks in the night. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->