Tripura DGP who had led anti-Sikh riots probes found dead in office toilet

AGARTALA: Tripura DGP Anurag Dhankar , a 1994-batch IPS officer who led the CBI probe into the Rs 13,000-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case involving diamantaire Nirav Modi and later headed an SIT that reinvestigated the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, was found dead in his office toilet at Agartala police HQ Monday.Govt has ordered a magisterial probe amid demands for a judicial inquiry. Police said circumstances pointed to suicide but declined to confirm the cause of death or say whether any death note had been found.Police sources said Dhankar, 60, remained inside the toilet unusually long, prompting his orderly to raise an alarm. The door, locked from inside, was broken open. He was taken to Agartala govt medical college and hospital around noon. Dr Pradip Bhowmik said Dhankar was brought to the hospital with no signs of life. “He was dead. There was no scope for any treatment,” he said.