An UP police team, headed by Dy SP Avanish Mishra, probing the death of the 2007 batch Karnataka-cadre IAS officer, Anurag Tewari, has revealed in its initial findings that the Karnataka government withheld Tiwari's salary for four months and released it a week after he died. But an unnamed top Karnataka-cadre officer has dismissed this report and asserted that it could have been only due to a technical error. Everyone who knows the functioning of the Congress Party and its leaders is well aware of the meaning of 'technical error.' Dy SP Mishra said, "We examined his SBI account statement and realized he was not paid the salary for the last four months before he died. Salary was credited to him on May 24." Anurag Tiwari was a commissioner in the food and civil supplies department when his salary was allegedly withheld. He was reportedly in the process of unearthing a massive Rs 2,000 crore food racket. It is also said Anurag was among a group of 22 officers whose salaries were stopped "due to indiscipline". The young civil servant from Bahraich district in U. P. was found dead outside a guesthouse in Lucknow on May 17. He had celebrated his 36th birthday with some batchmates the previous night.