Popular actor Kalabhavan Mani, who has acted in many Malayalam movies and Tamil movies like Gemini, Jay Jay, Endhiran, Kuthu, Papanasam, Vel etc had passed away in an unexpected manner in 2016 in his farm house. It was suspected by his family that he might have been poisoned to death.

Based on this suspicion, Kalabhavan Mani's family had filed a plea in High court requesting the CBI to investigate his death. After the high court order, CBI had been investigating the case and now they have presented their report based on the investigation.

As per the CBI report, it has been revealed that Kalabhavan Mani had health complications that had affected his liver, and as he had the habit of consuming raw vegetables, traces of the insecticide Chlorpyrifos were present in his body and that lead to his death. It was confirmed by the CBI report that Kalabhavan Mani was not murdered.