Officer tells CBI about a suicide note by Sachan

About three months after former deputy CMO Dr Y S Sachan died in mysterious circumstances in Lucknow Jail.

About three months after former deputy CMO Dr Y S Sachan died in mysterious circumstances in Lucknow Jail,a senior Uttar Pradesh government official on Friday reportedly gave to the CBI a photocopy of a handwritten note found in his bag in the jail hospital immediately after his death. The note,purportedly a suicide note from Sachan,said he was ending his life and no one else was responsible for it.

V K Gupta,Additional Director General of Prisons,reportedly also told the agency that he had given the original note to a senior government official.

CBI sources said they will now write to the state government seeking the original note,and then send it to handwriting experts to verify if it was actually written by Sachan.

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Former senior superintendent of the jail S H M Rizvi had told the CBI that he had found the note and handed it over to Gupta.

On Friday,the CBI called Gupta for questioning regarding the note.

CBI officials said Gupta told them that Rizvi and jailor B S Mukund had handed him the note when he reached the spot. Rizvi reportedly told Gupta that the note was found in Dr Sachans bag,kept on his bed,in the jail hospital. At the time of his death,Sachan was undergoing treatment at the hospital.