Hazaribagh, Sept.10: The family of a Giridih-based businessman, who died in CBI custody on Thursday in Patna, is threatening to move the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the central investigating agency officers who arrested him.

CBI sleuths arrested Anand Prasad Anand (55) from Isri Bazaar under Nimiyaghat police station area on Tuesday.

The team said they would take Anand to Patna as he was wanted in a fraud case related to a loan from Allahabad Bank in 2008. On Wednesday he was taken to Patna via Gomo.

Anand, who returned to Giridh a year ago following a stint in Patna, was not home when the two-member CBI team landed at his house. His younger son Sumer was taken to the police station and told to send him soon.

The businessman met the CBI officers after that and was taken into custody.

“Some of our relatives were there at Patna station but were not allowed to talk to my father,” said Sumer. Anand was taken to the CBI office in Shastri Nagar for interrogation. “At night he was given five minutes to meet the family and eat,” he added.

Sumer received one call on Thursday at 3am informing him that his father was hospitalised at PMCH and another at 11am confirming his death. The last rites were performed in the evening.

He said his father did not have any prior health problems and was not given food or water. The grief-stricken Anand family said that they will raise the issue with NHRC levelling charges of ill-treatment against CBI. The family insisted that Anand, who was a well-known businessman, was not a criminal and had co-operated with CBI.

Anand’s family used to run four cinema halls in the district earlier. But 15 years ago he moved to Patna and started to work in film distribution.

He returned to Isri Bazaar a year-and-a-half ago and decided to set up a mineral water bottling plant on a land situated at a stone’s throw from his house.