Realtor’s disappearance: probe sought against cops involved in initial investigation

Even 2 years aft Kozhikode-based businessman Mohammed Aattoor alias Mami went missing, determination has been nary large breakthrough, adjacent arsenic caller allegations person surfaced against a fewer elder constabulary officers for their alleged sloppiness successful the archetypal signifier of the probe.

Mami, a starring realtor, disappeared connected August 21, 2023, and the lawsuit was archetypal handled by the Nadakkavu constabulary earlier being transferred to the Crime Branch (CB). The Kerala High Court had earlier dismissed the family’s plea seeking a CBI probe, prompting the enactment of a People’s enactment committee demanding a just and transparent reinvestigation.

The committee and household members present assertion vindication aft a department-level probe study by Assistant Commissioner of Police K.A. Bose (Anti-Narcotics Cell), submitted to North Zone Inspector General Rajpal Meena, recovered that the constabulary squad that initially probed the lawsuit failed to stitchery captious integer and circumstantial evidence, including CCTV footage from locations linked to the disappeared man’s past mobile operation signals. They allege that the officers “purposefully” ignored large leads that indicated a planned abduction and failed to interrogate cardinal persons, specified arsenic Mohammed’s operator oregon verify his telephone records properly. 

The department-level enquiry ordered aft a CB study identified superior lapses by the officers successful the archetypal signifier of investigation.  

The CB had interrogated implicit 200 individuals, galore of whom had concern oregon idiosyncratic links with the realtor. Investigators had besides scrutinised a acceptable of 15 suspicious mobile numbers identified done an extended operation dump investigation of aggregate mobile towers successful Thalakkulathur village, the determination wherever Mohammed’s 2 phones were past switched disconnected simultaneously. 

In the aftermath of the latest department-level probe findings, the enactment committee leaders person called for a abstracted probe against the archetypal constabulary squad that handled the lawsuit to exposure the reasons down a “sloppy probe.” They besides alleged that determination was suspicious engagement of immoderate elder constabulary officers successful the incident.