UP recommends CBI probe into Mahant Narendra Giri’s death

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 22

As the deceased president of Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, Mahant Narendra Giri, was given a “bhoo samadhi” (burial) on the premises of Baghambari “muth” today as per his last wish in his alleged suicide note, the postmortem report is learnt to have indicated that the possible cause of death was suffocation.

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Sources said a team of five doctors, which conducted the postmortem, had found a V-shaped mark on his neck.

Meanwhile, the UP Government has recommended a CBI probe in connection with the Mahant’s death, the state’s Home Department said on today.

An alleged suicide note was recovered, in which Mahant Giri’s former disciple Anand Giri, chief priest of Bade Hanuman Mandir Aadya Prasad Tiwari and his son Sandeep Tiwari were “held responsible”. The SIT had grilled Anand Giri and Aadya Tiwari, and both had denied their role, sources said.