On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear the plea of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul’s wife, who had allegedly committed suicide last year, seeking a CBI probe into his death.
Treating the letter written by Dangwimsai Pul as a petition, a bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and UU Lalit will deal with her plea seeking a probe into his death and the allegations levelled in a purported suicide note of the former Chief Minister.
In an appeal to the Chief Justice of India, a copy of which she made public at a press conference last week, Dangwimsai Pul said:
It is essential that an FIR be registered on the basis of the allegations contained in it (suicide note) and the case be investigated by the CBI since the primary allegations are of corruption of judges at the highest level.
She had also alleged that her family was getting threats and she was advised not to hold the press conference in which she made the late chief minister's suicide note public.
"Ever since the (suicide) note surfaced in the media, my family, including myself, my children and relatives have been subjected to various threats from different quarters," she has claimed.
(With inputs from PTI)
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