#Bangalore : As public anger mounted over the mysterious death of an upright IAS officer #DKRavi, his family has raised doubts over the #Karnataka #Police’s claim that he committed suicide and hinted that he was under “political pressure”. They also insisted on a #CBI probe, a demand also made by #Union #minister #SadanandaGowda. “My son wouldn’t have committed suicide. He is not like that. He was strong hearted. My son was not a coward. I had not given birth to a son who could commit suicide,” Gowramma, the mother of D K Ravikumar, whose death has sparked outrage and rattled the state administration, said.“He was a son of this country. I have a lost son of this country,” an inconsolable Gowramma said, as the government came in the line of fire from the opposition parties and others for the suicide theory given by the police. 37-year-old #DKRAVI, a popular bureaucrat for being honest and gutsy in taking on the sand and land mafia and tax evaders, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his room in a flat in Bangalore on Monday evening, with the police saying it was a case of suicide prima facie. “My younger brother died because of political pressure,” Ravi’s brother Ramesh said as he broke down. “I don’t know whether we will get justice,” he said alleging it was a murder. Ravi’s father Kariyappa, Gowramma and Ramesh on Wednesday staged a dharna at the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat, and demanded a CBI probe into Ravi’s death. “We only want a CBI probe. We want justice,” Gowramma said, with the other two echoing the demand.
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