Tripura DGP Anurag Dhankar’s last rites to be held in UP’s Baghpat on Wednesday

Guwahati: The last rites of Tripura Director General of Police (DGP) Anurag Dhankar whose body was found under mysterious circumstances at his official chamber at the state Police Headquarters here, will be performed on Wednesday at Baraut in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district, officials said.

A senior police official said that Tripura Governor Indra Sena Reddy Nallu, Chief Minister Manik Saha, several state ministers, Chief Secretary Jitendra Kumar Sinha, Home Secretary Abhishek Singh, acting Director General of Police G.S. Rao, and many senior civil, police and security officials paid their last respects to Anurag.

Tributes were first paid at the Police Headquarters and later at the Civil Secretariat in the New Capital Complex.


The official said Anurag’s body, accompanied by his family members, was flown via Odisha and Delhi to his native place at Baraut in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district, where his last rites would be performed on Wednesday morning.

The Tripura government declared a one-day state mourning on Tuesday as a mark of respect to DGP Anurag, a 1994-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Tripura cadre.

According to police officials, after Anurag’s body was found in a hanging position in the bathroom attached to his official chamber at the Police Headquarters on Monday, he was immediately taken to the Agartala Government Medical College and Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.

Acting Director General of Police G.S. Rao on Tuesday said that a separate investigation team is likely to be constituted to probe Anurag's “unnatural death”.

Police, however, have already initiated a routine inquiry into the death, he told the media.

Former minister and Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Sudip Roy Barman told the media that only a judicial probe monitored by a sitting judge of the Tripura High Court would help uncover the actual circumstances and reasons behind the death of the state's senior-most IPS officer.

Leader of Opposition (LoP) Jitendra Choudhury who is also the CPI(M) Tripura state Secretary and a former minister, demanded a judicial inquiry into Anurag's death under the supervision of the Chief Justice of the Tripura High Court.

Anurag took charge as Tripura’s Director General of Police on May 17 last year, succeeding Amitabh Ranjan, a 1988-batch IPS officer.

Before assuming charge as the DGP, Anurag served as Director General of Police (Intelligence), Tripura.