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HC asks CB-CID to probe mystery death of dalit youth
A Subramani, TNN, Mar 3, 2011, 12.44am IST
CHENNAI: 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
post-mortem 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.
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