Swami Nigmanand, who had been fasting for almost four months to protest illegal mining and stone crushing along the Ganga near Haridwar died at the Himalayan hospital in Jollygrant in Dehradun on Monday. This is the same hospital where Baba Ramdev was admitted and was receiving lot of attention. Swami Nigamanand died a day after Ramdev broke his fast.

Swami Nigmanand had been on a fast since February 19 this year and was forcibly taken to a local hospital in Haridwar on April 27 when his condition worsened after days of fasting. He was later transferred to the Himalayan hospital in Jollygrant earlier this month after he went into a coma and subsequently died on Monday. His followers have asked for a CBI probe into his death allegeing that he was poisoned.

Swami Nigamanand's post-mortem report indicates that he may have died due to insecticide poisoning. The report from Delhi's Lal Path Labs indicates Swami Nigamanand could have died due to insecticide poisoning. Swami Nigamanand's pathology report says that he died of insecticide which was administered to him during the duration of his stay at the government hospital. The pathology report shows high levels of toxins in the blood and indicates organophosphate insecticide posisoning. The Uttarakhand government has ordered a CB-CID probe into the death. Swami Nigamanand was fasting to protest the Uttarakhand government's refusal to ban mining along a stretch of the Ganga near Rishikesh.