Ranchi: The parents of Rupa Tirkey, the deceased 26-year-old assistant sub inspector who was posted at Sahibganj women’s police station, met chief minister Hemant Soren on Friday and demanded a CBI probe.
Tirkey’s mother Padmavati Oraon and father Devanand Tirkey met Soren around 1 pm.
The meeting was facilitated by Mandar MLA Bandhu Tirkey.
“Rupa’s parents are of the view that she was killed.
They were unhappy with the course of police investigation and wanted an impartial inquiry into her death by the CBI,” Tirkey told TOI after the 90-minute meeting.
Devanand showed video clips and photographs of her daughter’s corpse to the CM, which he was carrying in a laptop.
“The CM was not briefed thoroughly about the case by the cops and he was surprised to know many details,” a member of the 11-member strong delegation which met Soren said on anonymity.
“Rupa was like my sister.
I assure you that an impartial inquiry will happen and the guilty will be brought to book,” Soren told Rupa’s parents.
Soren, however, talked the parents out of their demand for a CBI probe by stating that an independent inquiry committee, comprising a retired Jharkhand High Court judge, was constituted two days ago to probe the incident.
Rupa, a 2018 Jharkhand Police Service batch officer, was found hanging in her quarters in Sahibganj on the night of May 4.
Though prima facie it appeared as suicide, no suicide note was found from her lodgings.
Padmavati had alleged foul play in her daughter’s death.