Jehanabad, February 15 A team of CBI officials visited the village where the aspiring NEET student, who died in Patna last month, was from, sparking a political controversy.
The CBI team visited the village in Jehanabad district, days after the agency formally took over the case and registered an FIR.
The student was found unconscious at a private hostel in Patna's Chitragupt Nagar on January 6. She remained in a coma and died five days later at a private hospital.
The incident led to a political uproar, following which the state government handed over the investigation to the CBI on January 31.
Her family had alleged sexual assault and accused authorities of attempting to cover up the incident. Subsequently, the police arrested a hostel employee in connection with the case.
CBI officials reached the village around 9 am and spoke to the deceased student's family members and neighbors, seeking clarification on the sequence of events.
The investigators searched the student's house for nearly three hours before leaving around 1 pm.
Both family members and CBI officials remained tight-lipped about the visit.
Sources said that certain belongings of the deceased were taken for further examination.
On Saturday, the investigators had also visited the private hostel in Patna as part of the investigation.
The agency is expected to examine the findings of the Patna Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT), which had earlier collected blood samples from around 30 individuals, including family members and close contacts, for DNA testing, officials said.