UP recommends CBI probe into Mahant Narendra Giri’s death

TIL Desk/National/Allahabad(UP)/ The Uttar Pradesh government has recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in connection with the death of Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad president Mahant Narendra Giri, the state’s home department said on Wednesday.The seer, who was the president of the largest organisation of sadhus in India, was found hanging by his disciples at the Baghambari Mutt in Allahabad on Monday.

‘On the instructions of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a probe by the CBI has been recommended in the incident pertaining to the sad death of chairman of Akhara Parishad Mahant Narendra Giri,’ the department said in a tweet in Hindi. The Uttar Pradesh Police had on Tuesday constituted an 18-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the death of the seer and detained a disciple of his in Haridwar.

A panel of five doctors on Wednesday conducted a post-mortem examination. After the autopsy, the body was taken to the Baghambri Gaddi Mutt. The seer was buried in a ‘bhoo samadhi’ under a lemon tree around 3 pm. There was heavy deployment of security personnel at the site where the autopsy was conducted. Former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand had on Tuesday demanded a CBI inquiry into the death. Meanwhile, the UP Police on Wednesday arrested a third person in connection with the seer’s death, officials said.