lucknow the anita singh death case took a murky turn late on thursday when her advocate cousin lodged an fir accusing her ias officer husband umesh singh of extramarital affair and murderthe bureaucrat has rubbished charges and said he would lodge a countercomplaint for defamation and harassment against his brotherinlaw rajeev kumar singh the couples two children daughter aged 22 and son 20 have also accused their uncle of lyinganita 42 died in her room at their vikalp khand home following a gunshot wound in the chest on september 1 her family members told police she was suffering from chronic depression and shot herself with her licensed pistol they said her door was locked from inside and was broken open to take her to hospital where she was declared brought dead after preliminary investigation police too said it was a possible suicide however advocate rajeev has raised unanswered questions in his fir one he said close inspection of the door latch indicated that it didnt break when pushed from outside rather it was deliberately broken later to suggest the door was locked from inside when the shot was firedsecond the fir said there was no explanation on how anita received a contusion on the back of her head she fell on the sofa and not on any hard surface and third in case of normal perforating bullet injuries the exit wound is always bigger than the entry wound if anita shot herself in the chest why is that wound bigger than the one on her back from where the bullet supposedly exited her bodyrajeevs fir further said that his cousin was depressed for the past few years because of her husbands relationship with other w i last saw anita with umesh at the housewarming function of my brother in gomtinagar two months ago she was not dressed for the occasion and was also not wearing sindoor that their relationship was under stress was pretty obvious he saidthe advocate also questioned why umesh allowed her to keep a loaded gun when she under medication for depressionon why he was taking interest in the case rajeev said anitas father was bedridden and she had no brother hence i have taken up the cudgels to fight out the truth he said demanding a cbi probe and suspension of the ias officerdenying all the charges umesh called rajeev an opportunist trying to get cheap publicity out of a family tragedy since anita and i were married 23 years ago rajeev never visited us not even on rakshabandhan or when she was hospitalised a few months ago the ias officer saidthe husband claimed he had kicked the door open because of which the latch broke the same has been examined by forensic experts he said adding that he had no idea how his wife had hurt the back of her headumesh maintained that he had bought the pistol for anita in february 2016 while she was diagnosed with depression in january 2018she was seeing a