Lucknow:
Within 48 hours of IAS officer Harminder Raj Singh's alleged suicide, the Uttar Pradesh Police has wrapped up the investigations in the case.
But the case is still mired in suspicion with several questions still remaining unanswered. However, the UP Police refuse to accept any foul play in the officer's death.
NDTV asked A K Jain, ADG, Law and Order, about the case.
NDTV: Should you not investigate the cause of the officer committing suicide?
Jain: This would become an unending process.
NDTV: Is this not a failure on part of the police to locate the bullet?
Jain: If you want to call it a failure, I don't want to comment on this.
But now NDTV has access to the phone records of one of the mobiles of the IAS officer. It indicates that the phone was inactive between 6:30 pm on November 28 evening till 1:30 am on the 29th morning. According to the police, Harminder shot himself at 19 minutes past 1 am in the morning of the 29th.
But just a day before, 28 calls and SMSs were exchanged in the same time period, which can only mean two things - that either Harminder did not use the phone or these records have been tampered with.
But yet the police are unwilling to re-launch the investigation on the basis of this evidence and the missing links.
"Suppose we get hold of the details of his call records then what will we find out? And then should we ask those who he spoke to and what was the conversation between them," said Jain.
What's baffling is the hesitation of the UP Police to probe the obvious, and perhaps that will only happen if Harminder's family ever decides to question his death.