The Jharkhand High Court has ordered the Rupa Tirkey suicide case, being investigated by the CBI, to be transferred to a Dhanbad special court of Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate Shikha Agarwal.
The trial is likely to begin after the transfer of documents pertaining to the case from Sahebaganj Court to Dhanbad.
The body of Rupa Tirkey, officer in-charge of women police station of Sahebganj was found hanging from at her official residence on May 3.
Police investigation in the case claimed that Rupa Tirkey was allegedly harassed by her friend and colleague Shiv Kumar Kanujia leading to her death by suicide following which Kanaujia was arrested on May 9 for abetting her suicide.
The case, which has remained in the media spotlight for the last two to three months due to political connotations, has been transferred to Dhanbad special court in the absence of a CBI court in Sahebganj.
Dayanand Oraon, father of Rupa Tirkey, claimed his daughter did not die by suicide but had been killed as part of a conspiracy.
Oraon who also filed a petition in Jharkhand High Court in June demanding a CBI probe into the death of his daughter charged that she was harassed by some of her colleagues at the instruction of Pankaj Mishra, MLA representative of Chief Minister, Hemant Soren and Dahu Yadav as she didn’t listen to the their request to manage some of the cases being dealt by her.
Various tribal right organisations as well as opposition BJP raked up the issue forcing the government to announce a judicial probe into the case and a one-member commission was constituted by the government of a retired high court justice.
Dissatisfied with the government move, Oraon continued his demand for a CBI probe into the issue and challenged the government decision of a judicial probe in high court.
The court bench of justice SK Dwivedi finally ordered a CBI probe into the case after which the Patna team of CBI took the case into its hand by registering an FIR.