BJP Karnataka MPs protest in demand of CBI inquiry into D.K. Ravi's death case

Bharatiya Janata Party MPs from Karnataka on Thursday demanded a CBI inquiry into IAS officer D.K. Ravi's death case.

They made this demand in Parliament.

"When the family members of D.K. Ravi are demanding CBI probe then the Karnataka Chief Minister should refer it to the CBI," former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa told ANI.

"Ravi's case should be given to the CBI enquiry because many cases have happened in Karnataka. Whatever is happening in Karnataka is very bad. Yesterday, the enquiry officer of C.I.D., the senior officer, is transferred. Why was he being transferred? That is why we are asking," said another protesting MLA.

Earlier on Wednesday, lawyers had also staged a protest demanding that the Karnataka Government to handover the probe into the officer's death case to the CBI.

The Karnataka Government has, however, so far rejected the demand and asserted that the CID of the state police is capable of handling the investigation in the case.

The 2009 batch IAS officer, who was deputed as the Joint Commissioner of the state's Commercial Taxes Department, was found mysteriously hanging by a fan in the bedroom of his private apartment in South Bengaluru's Tavarekere earlier on Monday.