ED officer under investigation for graft found dead on railway tracks

An Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer, Alok Kumar Pankaj, who was under scrutiny in a corruption investigation by both the ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), was found dead on a railway track in Sahibabad, near Delhi, on Tuesday, in what appears to be a case of suicide.

- NARESH BISWANI

Alok Kumar, a Ghaziabad resident who was serving on deputation with the ED in New Delhi, had previously worked with the income tax department. Recently, he had been questioned twice by the CBI in connection with a corruption case but was released due to insufficient evidence.