Karnataka IAS officer found dead in mysterious circumstances

DHNS

Lucknow, 17 May 2017: Anurag Tiwari, a Karnataka cadre IAS officer, was found dead under mysterious circumstances near a government guest house in the state capital on Wednesday morning.

 

According to the police sources here, Tiwari, who was commissioner, food and civil supplies department in Karnataka, had been staying at the Meerabai Guest House in the city for the past two days.

 

Tiwari, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh’s Baharaich district, about 200 kilometres from here, had gone out for a morning walk, sources said adding that his body was found lying on the side of the road a few metres away from the Guest House.

 

Lucknow police chief Deepak Kumar said that a passer-by informed the police around six in the morning that a body lay on the side of the road. He was identified by an identity card, which was found in his purse.

 

’’There was an injury mark on the chin...apart from that there was no other injury mark,’’ Kumar said.

 

He said that prima facie it seems that Tiwari may have died of ’’traumatic injuries’’, including heart attack or from falling or may have been knocked down by a speeding vehicle. ’’The real cause of death will be ascertained only after the postmortem examination,’’ Kumar added.

 

The official said that a senior UP IAS officer Prabhu Narain Singh, who was currently vice-chairman of Lucknow Development Authority, was also staying with Tiwari.

 

Sources said that it was Tiwari’s birth day today.

 

A 2007 batch IAS officer, Tiwari had completed B. Tech in electrical engineering from the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow.