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Anurag Tewari case: Why was IAS officer's salary not paid for four months?

  • As the UP police begin to examine IAS officer Anurag Tewari's life in detail, many more questions are beginning to arise.
  • Tewari was authorised to draw his own salary from accounts. So why was he not paid for four months? 
  • The Govt gave him permission in March to install six CCTV cameras in his home. How many threats existed against him? 
Twist in Anurag murder case Officers salary was withheld for 4 months due to indiscipline

In a fresh twist in the Anurag Tiwari murder case, it has been found by the UP police that the officer's salary was not credited to his account for the last four months before his death. The police also found that the money was credited to his SBI account just a week after his death.

Various theories have emerged following the revelation. Anurag Tiwari was a commissioner in the food and civil supplies department when his salary was reportedly withheld. A top Karnataka bureaucrat dismissed the fact, saying that it could have been a technical error. A few others in Bengaluru claimed that he was one of the 22 officers whose salaries were withheld on disciplinary grounds. 

Meanwhile, speaking to the Times of India, the Principal Secretary of the food and civil supplies department said, "We examined his SBI account statement and realised he was not paid salary for the last four months before he died. Salary was credited to him on May 24...Tiwari, as commissioner, was authorised to draw his own salary since the chief accounts officer worked under him. There may have been a delay due to technical reasons."

The team is also probing what prompted Anurag to install CCTV cameras at his residence in Bengaluru's Dollars Colony in February. The government had also sanctioned six cameras to be installed at his Bungalow in March. His elder brother Mayank said, "Around the same time, Anurag had told me and his close friends that there were threats to his life."

The CCTV footages, however, did not do much to help in the investigation of the IAS officer's alleged murder because it had records of just 3 days prior to his death. The team, however, learnt that some officers from Anurag's department had visited his bungalow after his death. Mayank further added, "The Lucknow police team is following just one line of investigation: Whether Anurag died of medical complications. So far, police have no evidence of respiratory disorder leading to death and the time is running out."

The 2007 batch officer, belonging to Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, was found dead outside a guesthouse in Lucknow on May 17. He was reported to have celebrated his 36th birthday with some batchmates the previous night.


 

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