The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR and started investigation into the deaths of violinist Balabhaskar and his two-year-old daughter Tejasvini
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The Kerala state government had last year issued an order transferring the case to the CBI. CBI DSP TP Anandakrishnan has been appointed as the investigation officer.
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Balabhaskar's parents requested the government to transfer the case to CBI as they assume the death was linked to gold smuggling.
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Balabhaskar's manager Prakashan Thampi was later arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in connection with gold smuggling
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Balabhaskar and his family met with an accident at Pallipuram near Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the early hours of September 25, 2018.
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While Balabhaskar and his wife Lakshmi were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, their two-year-old daughter Tejasvini, unfortunately, died on the spot. Balabhaskar died in the hospital on October 2.
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