CJ Roy suicide: Income tax raids continued after Confident Group chairman's death, claims family
Confident Group chairman C.J. Roy had shot himself with a gun during a raid by Income Tax Department officials on January 30
Confident Group chairman C.J. Roy had shot himself with a gun during a raid by Income Tax Department officials on January 30
Confident Group chairman C.J. Roy had shot himself with a gun during a raid by Income Tax Department officials on January 30
Confident Group chairman C.J. Roy had shot himself with a gun during a raid by Income Tax Department officials on January 30
The family of Confident Group chairman C.J. Roy has claimed that raids by the Income Tax Department continued even after he died by suicide on Friday.
They have also alleged that the raids at Roy's Bengaluru office, led by the department's Additional Commissioner Krishna Prasad, had put him under great stress, as per a Media One report.
This includes three days of questioning by the I-T officials, which comes after a December 2025 raid at the Confident Group office. The family claimed that all documents requested at the time had also been provided.
The report notes that Roy had been called to the Bengaluru office of the company at about 2 PM, after which he faced questioning for about an hour.
After a round of questioning, he was asked to produce some documents, which he did not for about an hour, in which time he picked up a gun he owned and shot himself with it in front of the I-T officials.
The very same officials admitted him to the Narayana Hospital in Bengaluru with serious head injuries. However, he is said to have died on the way.
(More details are awaited.)
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