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A tribunal successful Kannur, Kerala, connected Monday ordered a further probe into the decease of precocious Additional District Magistrate (ADM) K. Naveen Babu.
Babu was recovered dormant connected October 14, 2024 astatine his authoritative residence successful Kannur, allegedly aft CPI(M) person P.P. Divya made remarks against him during a farewell event.
Thalassery Additional Sessions Court Judge Titty George, successful a communal order, allowed 2 petitions filed by Babu’s household seeking further probe and the accumulation of the Call Data Records (CDR) of Ms. Divya’s authoritative mobile phone.
It was alleged that Ms. Divya, past Kannur territory panchayat president, arrived uninvited astatine Babu’s farewell relation and levelled corruption charges against him publicly.
The constabulary registered a lawsuit successful transportation with the incidental and aboriginal filed a chargesheet successful the magistrate tribunal against Ms. Divya for abetment of suicide.
As per the tribunal diary, petitions filed by the household stating that the constabulary probe was incomplete connected August 8, 2025 and different petition filed connected February 28 seeking accumulation of further documents were allowed.
Lawyers associated with the lawsuit told PTI that the tribunal has directed constabulary to behaviour further probe into a fewer aspects of the case.
According to them, the tribunal has asked constabulary to analyse whether T.V. Prashanthan, who alleged that Babu demanded a bribe from him for starting a petrol pump, had met him astatine Pallikunnu.
Similarly, the constabulary were directed to cheque whether Mr. Prashanthan had filed a corruption ailment against Babu with the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) and what enactment was taken connected it, they said.
The tribunal besides directed constabulary to verify Mr. Prashanthan’s assertion that helium had taken a golden indebtedness to allegedly wage a bribe to Babu.
The family, successful its petition, had requested the tribunal to grounds the connection of a Minister, which was not approved by the court, a lawyer said.
The tribunal has directed constabulary to record a study aft conducting a further probe erstwhile the lawsuit is taken up again connected May 30.
