India, Feb. 2 -- Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas have called for an independent and judicial probe into the death of Confident Group founder and chairman C J Roy.

Chief minister Vijayan on Monday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, seeking a judicial probe into the death of Roy, who allegedly died by suicide during an Income Tax search in Bengaluru on January 30. He was found dead with bullet injuries by Income Tax authorities while they were searching his firm's office in Bengaluru.

The Kerala CM, in a letter to the Finance Minister, called the incident a "blot on the country's tax administration", while flagging alleged procedural lapses regarding the search, ANI news agency repor...