The state home department of Uttar Pradesh informed through that on the order of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath a CBI probe of this case has been recommended.
Alok's family says that they had searched the spot several times on the previous night but Alok's body was not there. They suggest that he must have been killed elsewhere and his body hanged at the spot to make it look like suicide.
On Monday evening, Mahant Narendra Giri was found dead dead in his room in the Baghambari Math in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. A suicide has been suspected after a note was recovered from the room.