Sources said Ashwani Kumar had been depressed for several weeks.
New Delhi:
Ashwani Kumar, former director of the IWC and former governor of Nagaland, was found dead at his Shimla residence on Wednesday night. He was 69 years old.
According to Shimla Police Superintendent Mohit Chawla, quoted by the ANI news agency, Kumar died by suicide. Sources said he had been depressed for several weeks.
The police reportedly recovered a suicide note stating that he (Mr. Kumar) had been overwhelmed by this life and had set out on his next journey.
A team of police officers, and one from the Indira Gandhi School of Medicine and Hospital in Shimla, rushed to Mr. Kumar’s home.
Mr. Kumar, a retired IPS officer from Himachal Pradesh, served as DGP for the state between 2006 and 2008 before being appointed Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a two-year term.
He was in charge of the central agency while investigating the infamous murder case of Arushi Talwar. Kumar, who was appointed director after the agency had begun its investigation, established a second team that contradicted the first, stating that the parents killed Aarushi after finding him with Hemraj.
Mr. Kumar also served as Governor of Nagaland from 2013 to 2014; in that period he was also briefly governor of Manipur.
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