Salman case accused's mom seeks CBI probe

MUMBAI: Mother of

Anuj Thapan

, an accused in firing outside actor Salman Khan's home who allegedly died by suicide in

police custody

, has moved Bombay high court seeking a

CBI probe

into her son's "unnatural" death.
"Murderous police assault, unending beatings and brutal torture" caused Thapan's death, states the petition by Rita Devi (40), of Sukhchain village in Fazilka district, Punjab, filed on Friday.

Besides the state, she has made actor Salman Khan a respondent to her petition.
She has also urged HC for a fresh postmortem of the body and to preserve CCTV footage of the cell and call data record of cops concerned from April 24 till May 2.