Karnataka IAS officer Anurag Tiwari's death mystery deepens

The mystery behind the death of the Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anurag Tiwari deepened further after the staff at the government guest house, where he had been staying with a friend, told the cops that they did not see him returning to his room on Tuesday night.
 
Tiwari was found dead under mysterious circumstances a few metres away from the guest house on Wednesday morning. According to the police sources here on Sunday, one of the night duty staff at the guest house said that he did not see Tiwari returning to his room after he reported for duty at 2200 hours on Tuesday night. He said that he left the guest house at seven in the morning.
 
The statement added to the death mystery as Tiwari and his IAS friend P.N.Singh were seen emerging from a restaurant in the state capital around ten on Tuesday night.
 
The police said that they were trying to check the authenticity of the guest house employee's statement. The probe team also quizzed the other staff at the guest house.
 
The special investigating team (SIT), which was probing the death, had re-enacted the possible sequence of events on Saturday in a bid to reconstruct the happening between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
 
The police said that they would also investigate the allegations made by Tiwari's brother Mayank, that the IAS officer was being harassed by his superiors and also that there was a threat to his life.
 
Mayank had also alleged that the call records in Tiwari's cell phone had been deleted. ''We will investigate the allegations,'' said a senior police official here.
 
Tiwari, who was commissioner, food, civil supplies and consumer affairs department in Karnataka, was found dead here on Wednesday. His body was found lying on the side of the road a few metres away from the Meerabai Guest House.