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The Kerala State Police Complaints Authority has ordered enactment against constabulary officers who allegedly filed a mendacious study successful tribunal to prosecute a Thrissur autochthonal without conducting a due probe into a rape ailment lodged against him.
The directive follows a ailment filed by M.N. Janardhanan Nambiar, an octogenarian, earlier the constabulary complaints authority. After conducting an inquiry, the authorization recovered that the allegations raised successful the ailment were valid and that determination had been a deliberate lapse connected the portion of the investigating officers.
Earlier, the Thrissur Assistant Sessions Court, which heard the case, had acquitted Mr. Nambiar of the rape charge. The tribunal proceedings and consequent findings revealed that the constabulary officers acrophobic had knowingly failed successful their work portion prosecuting the case. The authorization observed that submitting a misleading study to tribunal without a thorough and impartial probe amounted to superior misconduct and warranted ineligible enactment against the officers involved.
The authorization has instructed the Inspector General of Police, Thrissur Range, to registry a lawsuit against the officers recovered liable successful the issue. Those named see erstwhile Circle Inspectors of Guruvayoor constabulary presumption K.G. Suresh and K. Sudarshan (retired); and erstwhile Assistant Commissioner of Police, District Crime Records Bureau, Thrissur, Sivadasan.
The bid follows a Kerala High Court judgement successful December 2024 that directed the authorization to expedite the proceedings successful the ailment that has been pending for astir a decade.
