Mahant Narendra Giri death: Seven days CBI remand of all three accused including Anand Giri approved

The three accused, including Anand Giri, arrested in the death of Mahant Narendra Giri, will be taken on a seven-day CBI remand. The court of CJM Harendra Nath in Prayagraj has ordered to remand the three on the application of CBI. The court also spoke to the three accused Anand Giri, Aadhya Tiwari, and their son Sandeep Tiwari through video conferencing before ordering their remand. The three accused did not oppose the remand but requested the court to grant remand of only two or three days.

The court has ordered the CBI that third degree will not be used during remand. Apart from this, medical will also be done while taking the three from jail into custody and bringing them back. The remand period has been fixed from 9 am on 28 September to 5 pm on 4 October. The arguments on behalf of the accused and the CBI regarding the remand of the three went on till two o'clock in the afternoon. In the court, Anand Giri's lawyer opposed the custody, while the judge spoke to Anand Giri through video conferencing, he did not oppose the custody but appealed to accept the remand of only two or three days.

 Narendra Giri's body was found hanging from a fan in Prayagraj's Baghambri Math exactly a week ago. A suicide note was also recovered from his room. In this, apart from the disciple Anand Giri, Aadya Tiwari, who was the priest of the Hanuman temple, and his son Sandeep Tiwari were accused of harassing them. In the suicide note, Anand Giri was accused of making a video of Mahant Narendra Giri with a girl and blackmailing her through it. Anand Giri was arrested from Haridwar on the same day of the incident. Aadya Tiwari and her son Sandeep were arrested the next day and sent to jail. After the arrest, Anand Giri had spoken of implicating himself, accusing him of killing Narendra Giri.

Because of the many mysterious situations regarding Mahant's death, the SIT was first directed to investigate the matter. But later the investigation was handed over to the CBI. A day before, the CBI reached the Math and did a recreation of the incident. The people of the monastery were also interrogated separately and together.