BSP chief Armstrong homicide case: Didnt you even conduct identification parade, Madras High Court asks Chennai police
Justice P. Velmurugan stated, many of the prison circumstances find yourself in acquittal solely due to the issues within the investigation and the current case earlier than him was a traditional instance. He stated, availability of CCTV footage of the crime couldn’t be cited as motive to dispense with the identification parade.
When Additional Advocate General (AAG) P. Kumaresan stated, the media too had printed photos of the accused and therefore an identification parade won’t have been of a lot use, the choose requested, “Was the media the attention witness to the crime? Media could publish any image for TRP (Television Rating Points).”
According to the prosecution, Armstrong was hacked to demise by an eight-member armed gang within the presence of his elder brother Okay. Veeramani, driver Abdul Kani, actual property dealer Balaji and constructing building employees Mohanraj and Suresh at Perambur in Chennai on July 5, 2024.
Mr. Veeramani too had suffered stab accidents, on his head and again, when he tried to guard his brother and it was on his grievance, the police had registered the First Information Report. The injured complainant had categorically instructed the police that he would have the ability to determine the assailants.
Yet, the police had miserably didn’t conduct an identification parade, the choose lamented. Though the defence counsel would have attacked the outcomes of the parade by citing publication of images of the accused within the media, that ought to not have prevented the police from complying with the authorized requirement, he stated.
The observations had been made earlier than the choose reserved his orders on a petition filed by Armstrong’s one other brother Okay. Immanuvel to switch the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The petitioner had sought switch on the bottom that the Chennai police had not investigated the case correctly.
Though the police had accomplished the investigation within the case and laid a cost sheet towards as many as 30 people, the petitioner relied upon a Supreme Court verdict to contend that the High Court might nonetheless switch the investigation to the CBI if it was not happy with the probe by the native police.
Justice Velmurugan instructed the AAG he would undergo the case papers after which resolve whether or not to put aside the cost sheet and order a contemporary investigation by the Greater Chennai City police itself or to switch the probe to every other investigating company as sought by the petitioner.
In a counter affidavit to the switch plea, the police instructed the court docket a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a Joint Commissioner of Police and comprising one Deputy Commissioner, two Assistant Commissioners, 16 Inspectors, 19 Sub Inspectors and 44 constables was shaped to unravel the Armstrong homicide case.
The investigation was carried out from all angles and it revealed that the motive for the homicide was gang rivalry and former enmity as a result of 2023 homicide of ‘Arcot’ Suresh. Hence, the police filed a 7,087-page cost sheet towards 30 people who included the spouse, brother, brother-in-law, different family and associates of Suresh.
The prime accused was convict Nagendran who was present process incarceration at Vellore Central Prison in one other homicide case. Further, the second accused ‘Shambhava’ Senthil alias Senthilkumaran and eighteenth accused ‘Mottai’ Krishnan alias Krishnakumar, each advocates by occupation, had been declared absconding.
On studying that the second accused might have escaped both to France or the United Kingdom, the police had taken steps to extradite him by issuing Red Corner Notices. They additionally break up the case towards the 2 absconding accused and knowledgeable the trial court docket that seventh accused Thiruvengadam had died throughout investigation.
Stating steps had been taken to conduct trial towards the remainder of the 27 accused who had been nonetheless underneath judicial custody and had not been granted bail up to now, the police stated, the investigation was carried out in knowledgeable method and that the accused had additionally been detained underneath the Goondas Act.
The court docket was additional instructed 5 country-made bombs, one nation made pistol, 4 9mm bullets, 13 knives, one axe, eight two-wheelers, 4 four-wheelers, 27 cell phones, a Zomato gown and a bag and money amounting to ₹63.13 lakh had been seized from the arrested accused.
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