The Crime Branch CID of the State police that is investigating the gunning down of an accused in the SP Pattinam police station in the district last October has registered a murder case against Sub-Inspector of Police A. Kalidass.
Two months after Judicial Magistrate II, N Veluchamy completed the Magisterial enquiry and submitted his report to the investigating officer, the CB-CID altered the Section from 176 (1A) (custodial death under suspicious circumstances) to a case of murder. Explaining the reasons for altering the section,
The CB-CID submitted that the SI’s claim that he had shot the accused dead in self-defence during interrogation at the police station was not sustainable.
Magistrate rejects his contention that he shot the accused in police station in self-defence
