Former CBI officer K Ragothaman, who was the chief investigating officer in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, died in Chennai on Wednesday, police sources said.
The veteran, 76, was admitted to a hospital in the city last week for Covid-19 treatment and breathed his last this morning, hospital sources said.
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Ragothaman was the CIO in the CBI’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed the killing of Gandhi on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, during an election rally, by a female LTTE suicide bomber.
He had penned a few books, including one on Gandhi’s killing.
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