Former Nagaland governor and ex-CBI director Ashwani Kumar has been found hanging at his residence in Shimla.
File photo of Ashwani Kumar (Source: MHA)
Former governor of Nagaland and ex-CBI chief Ashwani Kumar was found hanging at his residence in Shimla on Wednesday. He allegedly died by suicide. A suicide note has been found.
According to inputs, teams of police and doctors from IGMC have rushed to the spot. An investigation is underway.
The 1973-batch IPS officer had served as the governor of Nagaland between 2014 and 14. He was also the governor of Manipur briefly in 2013.
Ashwani Kumar was the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation between 2008 and 2010. During his term at the CBI, he had dealt with the high profile Arushi-Hemraj murder case. Ashwani Kumar was CBI director when the agency had arrested Amit Shah in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case in Gujarat.
Earlier, he served as the DGP of Himachal Pradesh from August 2006 to July 2008.