Amravati: The Dharni court on Saturday remanded suspended Gugamal deputy conservator of forest (DyCF), Vinod Shivkumar, to police custody remand till March 29, Monday, in Harisal range forest officer (RFO) Deepali Chavan suicide case, as per investigating officer Vilas Kulkarni.
Shivkumar was arrested from Nagpur railway station on Friday morning while boarding a train to Bengaluru. A strong gathering outside the court shouted slogans against Shivkumar and asked police not to take him back to the police custody in a van, but on foot. The irate mob even urged the police to hand Shivkumar over to them.
Meanwhile, the last rites on Chavan took place on Friday night at Moregaon, her husband’s native place in Nandgaon Khandeshwar tehsil of the district.
Civil surgeon Dr Shyamsunder Nikam on Saturday told TOI that Deepali was not pregnant at the time of her death. “She shot herself in the chest and died. The bullet had pierced her body,” said Nikam.