Click to play videoBhubaneswar: Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Jagadananda Panda allegedly shot dead four of his family members before killing himself in Bargarh district of Orissa.
It's believed that the senior IAS officer did this out of frustration after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided his office in Delhi a few days back.
Panda was posted in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in New Delhi.
The only ones to survive are his mother, who was not present at the time of the shooting, and his son, who is fighting for his life in a Sambhalpur hospital.
Police found a suicide note, which is available exclusively with CNN-IBN that gave a clue to the horrific crime.
"Not a penny was found in the search by the CBI in excess of my declared property. I am innocent," Panda wrote in his suicide note.
Panda was apparently so angry and humiliated by the CBI raid at his Delhi home that he is believed to have planned the mass murder and suicide.
\The note also had details of the distribution of his property after his death.
He went from Delhi to Bhubaneswar on July 27 from where he took his licensed revolver, bought 32 bullets and took them to his village in Bargarh district.
There he fired some practice rounds a day before returning to Sambhalpur to kill most his family and then himself.
Investigators also allege that Panda's family had suicidal tendencies, saying that his brother too had committed suicide several years earlier.
"Our senior officers have gone to the spot. Investigation is going on," said Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik
Though top Orissa police sources have confirmed that the office of the senior IAS officer was raided by the CBI, they are yet not yet clear what were CBI’s charges against Panda that led him to take the extreme step.
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