THRISSUR: B. A. Aloor, the lawyer of Soumya murder convict Govindachamy, says right from the day he took up the case he had made it clear that a gang that is into drug smuggling and robbery on trains based in Mumbai and Panvel engaged him and they were paying his fee. Talking to Deccan Chronicle, Mr Aloor, a native of Erumapetty here presently practising in Pune, said that particular gang members had persons from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
“In Govindachamy case, my point of contact was not an individual,” said Mr Aloor who recently spent two days in his native under the protection of private security guards. “The people who contact me in this case are ready to pay a hefty amount, and such gangs do have money. As someone who has appeared for such a gang member, what I have come to know is they can source money, and I do not go in search of how funds are routed to me.”
He also said Govindachamy was one who operated under the guise of a beggar and robbed persons on trains. He also has links with the drug mafia. “This mafia smuggles ganja and drugs, and it operates everywhere including Kerala. They have money to conduct cases if they are caught,” he said. He also said that Amir-Ul Islam, the accused in the Jisha murder case, and his relatives want him to be the defence lawyer and Islam even prepared a request in writing to hand over to the court. But, due to the intervention from different quarters, the request could not be delivered to the judge in the court.
