India, March 3 -- The Kerala high court on Monday rejected a petition seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of former Kannur additional district magistrate (ADM) Naveen Babu who was found dead at home in October last year.

A bench of justices PB Suresh Kumar and Jobin Sebastian rejected the appeal filed by the civil servant's wife, observing that the personal feelings of the official's family were not enough to warrant a transfer of the probe from the state police to CBI.

Babu, a revenue officer, was found dead in his government quarters on October 15 last year, a day after CPM leader and then Kannur district panchayat president PP Divya, while speaking at the official's farewell function, accused him of t...