Siddhartha's Suicide: Police to collect statement of former Income Tax DG

BENGALURU: The jurisdictional police in Mangaluru might come knocking on the doors of B.R Balakrishnan, former director-general of Income Tax (Investigation Wing) as part of its investigation into the death of Cafe Coffee Day founder V.G Siddhartha.

“We are talking to a lot of people as part of the probe. A police team which is in Bengaluru will be collecting a statement from the Income Tax officials as well,” a senior police officer, who is part of the investigation, said. He confirmed that the police would be talking to B.R Balakrishnan too.

Police Commissioner (Mangaluru) Sandeep Patil was unavailable for comment.


Balakrishnan, who is retiring from service today, was unavailable. His private secretary told ET, “He is busy and won’t be able to respond.”