Late Arunachal CM Kalikho Pul's wife demands court-monitored SIT probe into his death

Dangwimsai, wife of late Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul, will meet Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday, demanding a court-monitored SIT probe into the allegations made in his suicide note.

Dangwimsai, along with Swaraj Abhiyan leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav and activist Harsh Mander among others will submit their request letter for an SIT-constituted probe by seniormost Supreme Court judges other than the ones named in Pul's 60-page suicide note.

Kalikho's wife had written a letter to the Chief Justice of India, seeking his intervention to grant permission to register an FIR based on the suicide note.

Pul had committed suicide on August 9 last year.

PUL WROTE A 60-PAGE SUICIDE NOTE

In a 60-page note in Hindi, Pul purportedly wrote about his commitment to probity and alleged corruption by a range of public figures. His allegations named former and serving Supreme Court judges, senior law officers, politicians and other people holding high office. One of the charges made in the note was that



relatives of two judges had, via some individuals, indicated that they wanted money from Pul in exchange for ensuring that President's rule in Arunachal not be declared illegal.

Dangwimsai released her letter addressed to the CJI and sought an FIR and an independent probe into the accusations. Her letter underlined that prior permission from the CJI or other senior judges was imperative before registration of the FIR and launching an investigation against the members of the higher judiciary.

The Chief Justice treated her letter as a letter petition and posted the same before a two-judge bench comprising Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice UU Lalit. When the matter came up for hearing on February 23, her lawyer Dushyant Dave objected to the listing of the matter on the judicial side.

"We had filed the plea on the administrative side and not on the judicial side. If your lordships insist on hearing it, we will not participate in it and we wish to withdraw", Dave said, citing the Veeraswamy judgment in his support.