Bengaluru: The government on Saturday sent the file on the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) report in the infamous Rs 2.27-crore robbery, which had taken place on a Kerala-bound bus at Yelawala, Mysuru, on January 4 last year to Director General and Inspector General of Police Om Prakash for reexamination. The CID had directly submitted the report to the government early this year without routing it through the DG&IGP.
“The government has referred the report to me for reexamination this afternoon. It is a long report of over 100 pages and may take some time. I will go through it carefully and if needed, will seek clarification from the CID,” said Mr Om Prakash.
A Kerala-bound bus carrying about Rs 2.27 crore of four jewellers was ‘raided’ by the police in Yelawala police station limits in Mysuru on January 4. The police seized six bags of cash from inside the bus and arrested the driver and the cleaner of the bus for “illegal” transportation of cash. The police showed a recovery of Rs 20 lakh, but the Kerala jewellers told their Home Minister that the amount was around Rs 2.27 crore.
The CID in August chargesheeted six police officials and some other private people in the case, including then sub-inspector C.D. Jagadish, four constables – Satish, Manohar, Ravi and Latif of Mysuru South police station and Prakash and the gunman of the then Southern range Inspector General of Police Ramchandra Rao under Sections 395 (dacoity) and 120A (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
Mr Rao, who was transferred after he came under scanner for his alleged involvement in the crime, does not figure in the chargesheet. Sources in the CID had said that there was no legal admissible evidence against the then IGP or the then deputy superintendent of Police (Mysuru rural) Srihari Baragur.
“It was a complex case because there were no independent witnesses. There is no clinching evidence on the exact amount, which was reportedly being transported in the bus. We can only surmise from the statements of the victims and the accused,” the officer added on condition of anonymity.
