The Madras High Court Bench here has sought the reply of the Home Secretary to a writ petition challenging the constitution of a special police team to investigate 13 cases related to discovery of explosives in Madurai, Theni and Sivaganga districts since 2011.
Justice R. Mahadevan ordered notice on the writ petition filed by A. Syed Abdul Kather, Madurai district president of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), who alleged that the team constituted for the investigation of the cases would not probe the cases in the right perspective.
According to the petitioner’s counsel, W. Peter Ramesh Kumar, the Inspector General of Police, Special Investigation Division, Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department, had passed an order on April 10 constituting a team led by Additional Superintendent of Police S. Marirajan to probe the 13 cases.
Claiming that Mr. Marirajan was accused, by an Inspector of Police last year, of hampering the investigation in one of the cases, the counsel stated that it was not right on the part of the Inspector General to have appointed the same officer to probe all 13 cases relating to detection of explosive materials.