The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition for an “independent investigation” by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the 2017 Kodanad Estate robbery-cum-murder case.
“This is not a fit case for admission,” a Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna observed, dismissing the petition.
The court refused to allow the lawyer to withdraw the case.
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“How can you file such a petition based on what this person... what is his name? Mathew Samuel... on the basis of what he told the media. You want an inquiry against the Chief Minister of a State on the basis of what this person said?” Chief Justice Gogoi asked the petitioner's lawyer, G.S. Mani.
The petition by ‘Traffic’ K.R. Ramaswamy sought a Supreme Court order to the Tamil Nadu Police to hand over records of the case, and an “independent investigation into the involvement of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami in the criminal case” by the Central Bureau of Investigation. “The robbery and murder of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s driver and home guard is not an ordinary murder case. It is a rarest of rare one, politically motivated, and may also link with the suspicious death of the former Chief Minister,” the petition said.
It said the “persons involved in the murder are not ordinary persons but very highly influential persons.
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