Shimla, April 8 -- Reiterating the demand for a CBI investigation into the death of Vimal Negi, chief engineer-cum-general manager of the Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited, leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur on Monday questioned the state government's "reluctance" to do so. "We had demanded a CBI probe in the assembly. The family does not accept the suicide theory. There are too many unanswered questions. But the government refused," Thakur said.

On March 10, Negi had gone missing and his body was fished out from a waterbody in Bilaspur eight days later. Accusing the BJP of politicising the issue, chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu had on Sunday said that his government was open to any form of investigation into Negi's death...