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The tragedy, which unfolded successful June and July, exposed systemic nonaccomplishment successful curbing the merchantability of spurious liquor and brought allegations of collusion betwixt instrumentality enforcement and transgression elements. (File Photo)
The Madras High Court connected Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into the Kallakurichi hooch calamity that claimed the lives of 68 radical earlier this year. The tribunal besides raised concerns implicit the Tamil Nadu government’s handling of the lawsuit and questioned the police’s quality to behaviour a just and impartial investigation.
The tragedy, which unfolded successful June and July, exposed systemic nonaccomplishment successful curbing the merchantability of spurious liquor and brought allegations of collusion betwixt instrumentality enforcement and transgression elements. The Second Division Bench, comprising Justices D Krishnakumar and P B Balaji, highlighted glaring lapses successful governance and expressed disappointment implicit the reinstatement of suspended constabulary officials, including the erstwhile Kallakurichi Superintendent of Police (SP) Samay Singh Meena.
Justice Krishnakumar, who is soon to presume bureau arsenic Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court, authored the judgment, describing the state’s reasons for reinstating Meena arsenic Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) conscionable weeks aft his suspension arsenic unconvincing. “This crushed does not chopped crystal with this court…,” helium wrote.
The tribunal noted the anticipation of Meena influencing ongoing investigations wrong the constabulary department, adjacent portion posted to a non-sensitive position.
The judgement was besides captious of the state’s nonaccomplishment to enactment decisively against different officials perchance complicit successful the tragedy. Justice Balaji, concurring with the elder judge, recovered it “jaw-dropping” that the merchantability of spurious liquor occurred truthful adjacent to constabulary stations.
The Bench said that the magnitude of the tragedy, spanning aggregate states including Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Puducherry, required an impartial probe beyond the purview of the state’s Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department. “This is 1 of the rarest of uncommon cases which warrants a just and impartial probe by the CBI,” the tribunal said, ordering the authorities constabulary to transportation each lawsuit files to the cardinal bureau wrong 2 weeks.
The tribunal noted the agelong transgression grounds of the premier accused, Kannukutty alias Govindaraj, who had been booked successful 17 prohibition cases since 2009 but continued his illicit trade. The tribunal said this makes it wide that determination is merit and substance successful the basal of the writ petitioners that Govindaraj has an unholy nexus with the constabulary officials.
While Tamil Nadu Law Minister S Regupathy said the directive to transportation the lawsuit to the CBI would lone hold justness and that the authorities has implemented unprecedented measures to code specified issues, the AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K Palaniswami urged the authorities to refrain from appealing the order. BJP authorities president K Annamalai and PMK main S Ramadoss besides welcomed the bid and blamed the authorities authorities for mishandling the case.
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