Court asks CB-CID to probe mystery death of dalit youth
Mother Suspects Son Was Murdered For Eloping With Upper Caste Girl
The mystery death of a dalit youth, who had married a caste Hindu girl, has been handed over to the CB-CID for investigation. The youth, who hailed from Puzhal near Chennai, allegedly died in a road accident in Tirunelveli where the girl is from.
Vesting the probe with the CB-CID on Wednesday, a division bench of the Madras high court comprising justice Elipe Dharma Rao and justice D Hariparanthaman directed the additional director-general of police (CB-CID) to take over the matter and hand over the investigation to a competent officer. The CB-CID shall report the progress of the investigation to the court after four weeks and the probe shall be completed in eight weeks, the judges said.
Only last week, the bench had expressed a strong apprehension about foul play in the death of Vinoth Kumar, and wondered if it was at all an act of a civilised society. It had already asked the police to approach the case on the basis of an affidavit filed by the victim’s mother Ranjani.
According to Ranjani, Vinoth was arrested by the Puzhal police on August 10 last year after he eloped with a minor caste Hindu girl.
He came out on bail on August 29. In December 2010, he was again picked up by the police, and his mother approached the Madras high court on January 11, 2011.
On January 14, she received a call from the Thisayanvilai police in Tirunelveli district, stating that Vinoth was knocked down by a vehicle while trying to escape from the police escorting him. Though a post-mortem had already been conducted, as per court orders another postmortem was conducted on January 23 here.
On Friday last, concurring with the arguments of her counsel P Vijendran, the judges wondered if it was possible to have a fair probe in the matter at all.
They also said the police force was trying only to safeguard the interests of ‘certain persons’, and added: “This (the suspicious death) was not possible without the collusion of the police.”
They also wanted the police to arrest a third person named in the new affidavit filed in the court, and felt that even the magistrate who remanded Vinoth Kumar in judicial custody was biased.
Source: The Times of India
Mother Suspects Son Was Murdered For Eloping With Upper Caste Girl
The mystery death of a dalit youth, who had married a caste Hindu girl, has been handed over to the CB-CID for investigation. The youth, who hailed from Puzhal near Chennai, allegedly died in a road accident in Tirunelveli where the girl is from.
Vesting the probe with the CB-CID on Wednesday, a division bench of the Madras high court comprising justice Elipe Dharma Rao and justice D Hariparanthaman directed the additional director-general of police (CB-CID) to take over the matter and hand over the investigation to a competent officer. The CB-CID shall report the progress of the investigation to the court after four weeks and the probe shall be completed in eight weeks, the judges said.
Only last week, the bench had expressed a strong apprehension about foul play in the death of Vinoth Kumar, and wondered if it was at all an act of a civilised society. It had already asked the police to approach the case on the basis of an affidavit filed by the victim’s mother Ranjani.
According to Ranjani, Vinoth was arrested by the Puzhal police on August 10 last year after he eloped with a minor caste Hindu girl.
He came out on bail on August 29. In December 2010, he was again picked up by the police, and his mother approached the Madras high court on January 11, 2011.
On January 14, she received a call from the Thisayanvilai police in Tirunelveli district, stating that Vinoth was knocked down by a vehicle while trying to escape from the police escorting him. Though a post-mortem had already been conducted, as per court orders another postmortem was conducted on January 23 here.
On Friday last, concurring with the arguments of her counsel P Vijendran, the judges wondered if it was possible to have a fair probe in the matter at all.
They also said the police force was trying only to safeguard the interests of ‘certain persons’, and added: “This (the suspicious death) was not possible without the collusion of the police.”
They also wanted the police to arrest a third person named in the new affidavit filed in the court, and felt that even the magistrate who remanded Vinoth Kumar in judicial custody was biased.
Source: The Times of India
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