India, Oct. 14 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against an architect and two senior officers of the Public Works Department (PWD), Bongaigaon, Assam, to probe their role in abetting the suicide of an assistant engineer of the department, in July this year.

It is alleged that the assistant engineer, who was posted at PWD's Bongaigaon sub-division and was found dead in her house on July 22, was under "tremendous undue and illegitimate work pressure from her seniors, colleagues and contractors" regarding a mini-stadium project of the PWD.

The Assam government had forwarded the probe to the CBI in August.

Those named in the CBI FIR include Debajit Sharma, architect of private firm - Aesthetic Creations; Am...