Overview

• A seven-member SIT has completed site videography, post-mortem examination, CDR analysis and evidence seizures in the investigation into Joshita Das’s death.
• Three individuals, including the two senior PWD officials named in Das’s suicide note, have been arrested on abetment to suicide charges.
• CBI director Praveen Sood has informally agreed to take up the case, with formal transfer awaiting Union Home Ministry approval.
• Das’s note accused her seniors of prolonged mental harassment and coercion to clear inflated bills on a mini-stadium project.
• The case has reignited statewide calls for stronger workplace harassment protections, mental-health support and anti-corruption reforms in government departments.