Justice Basant to Monitor Abhaya Probe, Kerala Online, January 8, 2009

Justice Basant to Monitor Abhaya Probe

Kerala Online
January 8, 2009

http://keralaonline.com/news/justice-basant-monitor-abhaya-probe_16100.html

Kochi, Thursday, January 08, 2009: Removing a major impasse created by the single bench order of Justice Hema, the Kerala High Court ruled that the Abhaya Murder case will now be monitored by Justice R Basant.

Also the Court ruled that, the CBI team constituted by Kerala High Court will continue to investigate the case under the CBI Joint Director Ashok Kumar and DIG Kuntha Swamy.

The Court was hearing the clarification petition filed by CBI.

A few days ago Justice Hema had criticised the CBI on the course of the investigation.

While granting bail to the three accused in the Sister Abhaya case Justice Hema had observed that it appeared that the investigation in the Sister Abhaya murder case was "going off the track."

The Court had also raised objection regarding the CDs containg the Narco analysis report of the three accused the Court said, On all probabilities, those are edited and manipulated at the Forensic Science Laboratory itself by the person or persons who were doing analysis". It was, therefore, necessary that the investigator should take all steps necessary to retrieve the unedited original video on the test before proceeding further to act on these CDs.