Shimla, May 28 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday registered a first-information report (FIR) on charges of abetment to suicide and common intention in the death of HPPCL chief engineer Vimal Negi, days after the high court handed over the probe to the agency, officials said. The FIR was registered in New Delhi on the basis of the case filed by Shimla police on March 19, and deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Brijendra Prasad Singh will be the investigation officer, they said. The case was registered under sections 108 (abetment to suicide) and 3 (5) (common intention) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the officials said. Himachal Pradesh high court on May 23 transferred the case to the CBI, noting that the state DGP raised concerns about the mode in which the investigation was being carried out. Negi was reported missing on March 10 and his body was recovered from Bhakra Dam in Bilaspur on March 18. His wife Kiran Negi alleged Vimal Negi's seniors were harassing him for months. On April 9, she moved the Himachal high court, demanding a CBI probe. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has written a letter to chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, expressing concern over what it said was the politicisation of Vimal Negi's death and urged the government to initiate a judicial inquiry....