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The granting of statutory bail to the accused aft the expiry of the 90-day remand play volition not derail the probe into the alleged misappropriation of golden from the Sabarimala temple, the Kerala High Court said connected Wednesday. The probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) is proceeding successful the close direction, the tribunal added.
The observations were made by the tribunal portion proceeding a plea filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar, seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged golden loss.
A Bench of Justices Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and K.V. Jayakumar noted that it had constituted the SIT and initiated the probe, which continued to beryllium nether its supervision. It further observed that the lawsuit was analyzable and bonzer successful nature, requiring a meticulous introspection of procedural and different details, peculiarly arsenic the SIT was dealing with aggregate layers of transactions involving respective individuals.
Three get bail
With respect to 3 of the 13 accused being granted statutory bail pursuing the completion of their 90-day remand, the tribunal said this would not weaken the prosecution. It observed that the SIT comprised susceptible constabulary officers and added that a CBI probe could not beryllium ordered successful each case, particularly since the unit deputed to the Central bureau often travel from the aforesaid State constabulary force.
In his plea filed successful December, Mr. Chandrasekhar had submitted that respective individuals and establishments crossed antithetic States were progressive successful the alleged misappropriation of gold, which could hinder the effectiveness of the SIT investigation. He contended that a cardinal bureau specified arsenic the CBI would beryllium amended placed to behaviour a broad probe.
Reacting to the tribunal observations successful Thiruvananthapuram, Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan said the Division Bench itself had fixed a reply to those who had been spreading lies that the authorities was aiding the merchandise of the accused without filing a chargesheet.
