The mother and brother of the officer wholesale furniture legs met the Uttar Pradesh chief minister today and requested him to hand over the probe to the CBI, saying they were unhappy with the probe by the state police. The chief minister has assured us that justice will be done," Mayank said, adding that the CM told them that every possible step will be taken to nab the culprits and asked them to wait till the SIT probe is completed. The complaint was lodged by his brother Mayanak," Circle Officer, Hazratganj, Avanish Kumar Mishra said. She also said that her son never went for morning walk, countering the police which had suggested that he may have gone out for a morning walk when he died.Sushila Devi made a fervent appeal to the prime minister and chief minister demanding justice for her son..Hours after the meeting, UP police said that it has registered a murder case against unidentified persons in the matter.

The issue has taken political colour after opposition members raised the matter vociferously in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly to question the law and order situation under the BJP government.Tiwaris family had alleged that he was murdered at the behest of corrupt officers as he was about to expose a "scam" in the department of food, civil supplies and consumer affairs in Bengaluru where he was posted as commissioner.Tiwari, a 2007-batch IAS officer, was staying at the Meera Bai guest house with a batch mate after attending a mid-career training programme at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie..However, an Uttar Pradesh Minister said in the House that the officer was about to expose a major scam under the Congress government in Karnataka.""We are not satisfied with the police probe.The UP police had constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the death on May 18.He also alleged that there was pressure on Anurag to withdraw the report which could have nailed senior officers and ministers, had it come in the public domain.Mayank had written to the Prime Ministers Office too demanding a CBI inquiry into his brothers death. The Assemly premises are hardly a kilometre from the spot where his body was found.In his letter, he said Anurag was an honest officer and wanted to work for the betterment of the society."An FIR has been registered in Hazratganj police station against unidentified persons in IAS officer Anurag Tiwaris case under IPC section 302 (murder)."We demanded CBI inquiry in order to find out why he was killed," his mother Sushila Devi told newspersons after meeting the chief minister.Lucknow: Five days after a Karnataka-cadre IAS officers body was found in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh police has registered a murder case on a complaint by his family members, who met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday and pressed for a CBI probe.

Post-mortem had indicated that Anurag Tiwari, 36, had died of asphyxia but police said that an SIT team probing the case was awaiting the test reports of his viscera and blood samples and heart to find the exact cause of the death.Tiwaris brother Mayank told reporters that the scene of crime has been washed and the mobile phone has been found in unlocked condition."The SIT team is yet to submit its report as it is going through all the possible clues and angles meticulously," Senior Superintendent of Police, Deepak Kumar said. "A few days back, Anurag had told me that he had stumbled upon a major scam in the Food and Civil Supplies department of Karnataka, which he wanted to inform the PMO and CBI," he wrote.She said that she wanted to know why an honest officer was killed.

.The police is now trying to find out whether Najeeb had any friend in Jamia whom he had gone to meet, sources said.Najeeb has gone missing on October 15 following an on-campus scuffle allegedly with ABVP members the night before.The Crime Branch also spoke with Najeebs family on Wednesday and apprised them of the status of investigation.The SIT was focusing on psychiatric angle in the probe after it was learnt that Najeeb was suffering from OCD with depression. He had taken the auto himself and wasnt accompanied by anyone," said a senior police officer.Initially, the reward amount was Rs 50,000 but later on, it was increased to Rs 1 lakh and subsequently to Rs 2 lakh last month.Last month, an SIT was formed to trace the missing student following an instruction from Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to the Delhi Police Commissioner. Verma today raised the amount to Rs 5 lakh, said a senior police officer.The SIT, headed by Additional DCP-II(South) Manishi Chandra, could not to gain any actionable clue in the matter.New Delhi: Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have traced the auto driver who ferried Najeeb Ahmed from JNU the day he went missing, even as it raised the reward from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh for anyone providing information that could help locate the missing student.

The team, which is investigating the matter, has started from scratch and is re-looking at all the clues and evidence, the officer said.However, the Crime Branch is now investigating all probable angles rather than focusing on any one perspective, sources said.While the case was being investigated by the custom precision machining SIT, teams were sent to Darbhanga in Bihar and Nepal after they got leads hinting that Najeeb might be there, but they could not find him.The Delhi Polices Crime Branch team investigating the case said that the auto driver told them he had dropped Najeeb to Jamia Millia Islamia.

The team was also mulling to seek help of psychiatrists from AIIMS or RML to chalk out a plan for investigation.Earlier in the day, Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Kumar Verma approved the increase in the reward amount from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. He took an auto from JNU and reached Jamia Millia Islamia campus."We have been able to trace the movement of Najeeb on October 15, the day he went missing.