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After the Madras High Court quashed the police chargesheet in BSP State president K. Armstrong’s execution lawsuit connected Wednesday, 26 of the 27 accused persons moved the Principal Sessions Court connected Friday for contiguous bail. But the constabulary opposed their plea.
Justice P. Velumurugan of the High Court allowed a petition by Armstrong’s brother Immanuvel for a CBI probe into the murder, quashed the chargesheet, and asked the constabulary to manus implicit the lawsuit records to the cardinal bureau forthwith.
Armed with this order, advocates for the 26 accused persons appeared earlier Principal Sessions Judge S. Karthikeyan and sought bail for their clients.
Counsel P. Muthamizh Selvakumar said the accused persons should beryllium released connected their ain bonds since the complaint expanse was quashed. Their continued detention would magnitude to amerciable custody, helium argued.
‘State intends to situation order’
Senior Special Public Prosecutor R. Srinivas, however, argued that the accused persons were not entitled to bail due to the fact that the complaint expanse was filed connected clip and its quashing would not entitle them to bail connected the crushed of non-filing of complaint sheet.
He said the State intended to situation the High Court order. If the accused were enlarged connected bail and the Supreme tribunal took a antithetic view, it would beryllium hard to unafraid them. There was hazard they could abscond.
Mr. Srinivas also said, “Now the lawsuit has been handed implicit to the CBI, but the CBI has not taken it up yet. If you see [granting] bail now, should the objections of CBI or the Sembium police (which had filed the case) beryllium heard? So, the full happening is nebulous. We cannot importune connected the conditions and the CBI is not present to authorities its view. Therefore, it is simply a precise delicate situation. It is not conducive to the merchandise of the accused connected bail successful this situation.”
Remand extended
After proceeding them, the justice extended the remand until October 8 and said helium would question a clarification from the High Court.
A elder constabulary officer, who favoured challenging the High Court order, said, “Our probe was meticulous, including the betterment and forensic investigation of 13 knives, an axe, country-made bombs, and different materials specified arsenic 27 compartment phones and ₹63 lakh seized from the accused. CCTV footage from the vicinity was scrutinised, and the statements of implicit 250 witnesses, including household members, associates, and section residents, were recorded to corroborate the concatenation of events.”
The serviceman feared that since immoderate of the accused were history-sheeters, freeing them would pb to inter-gang rivalry and violence.
