The Kerala Excessive Court docket on Friday recommended monitoring of the investigation into the loss of life of Further District Justice of the Peace (ADM) Naveen Babu by a senior police officer.
The suggestion by Justice Kauser Edappagath got here throughout listening to of a plea by Babu’s widow in search of to switch the probe into her husband’s alleged suicide to the CBI.
The court docket mentioned it needs to be first seen whether or not a CBI probe was required and for that the case diary needs to be seen to establish if the investigation was entering into the appropriate path.
The court docket granted the prosecution’s request for extra time to submit the case diary and listed the matter for listening to on December 12.
It directed the prosecution to file an affidavit together with the case diary.
The court docket on November 27 directed the prosecution to submit the case diary and an in depth affidavit explaining the progress of the inquiry by December 6. Nevertheless, on Friday, the prosecution sought extra time to take action.
In the meantime, the lawyer representing Babu’s widow instructed the court docket that the household suspects that the loss of life of the ADM could also be a murder.
Babu’s widow has moved the Excessive Court docket claiming that the investigation was not continuing in the appropriate path.
She has alleged that the accused, former president of the Kannur District Panchayat, P P Divya, possessed important political affect, elevating considerations that the investigation could be sabotaged.
She has additionally claimed that “no significant progress has been made by the present investigating company”.
Her petition has additionally claimed that the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) constituted to probe the case “has proven no constructive efforts in gathering proof on these essential elements”.
Babu had allegedly died by suicide following the corruption allegations made towards him by former Kannur District Panchayat President Divya at his farewell perform.
Attending his send-off perform allegedly uninvited on October 14, the CPI(M) chief had criticised Babu for delaying the approval of a petroleum pump in Chengalai for a number of months and remarked that he granted approval solely two days after being transferred, hinting that she knew the explanations behind the sudden nod.
The next day, Babu was discovered useless at his quarters in Kannur.
Divya was, subsequently, faraway from her publish, booked for abetment of suicide, arrested and remanded to judicial custody on October 29 after her plea for anticipatory bail was rejected by a classes court docket.
On November 8, she was granted common bail by the classes court docket.
