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The Maharashtra Human Rights Commission has ordered a suo moto inquiry into the mysterious circumstances in which Keki Balsara, a key witness in Gulshan Kumar murder case, died at the Bombay police headquarters on June 26.
The commission has served notices to state Chief Secretary V Ranganathan, Director General of Police Subhash Malhotra and Bombay Police Commissioner M N Singh asking them to explain in an affidavit under what circumstances Balsara died.
The respondents have been asked to submit their statements by Friday evening.
The commission has asked Ranganathan, Malhotra and Singh to send their replies along with a copy of the post-mortem report.
The commission is headed a former chief justice of the Kerala high court Justice Arvind Sawant.
Balsara died on June 26 in a toilet of the police commissionerate where an officer had allegedly summoned him in connection with the Gulshan Kumar murder case.
While the police claimed that he died of a heart attack, his family members say the circumstances in which Balsara died were shrouded in mystery.
Meanwhile, Balsara's brother has filed a petition before the commission saying that the deceased was innocent and had nothing to do with the Gulshan Kumar murder case.
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