Arrested accused not culprits: Crime Branch

KOZHIKODE: The sensational LKG student sexual abuse case at Darul Huda English medium high school, Parakadavu, may  end up as a cooked up story with the police top brass trying to write off the case.

Efforts are already on to free  the arrested accused and to prove that the girl had injured herself in her private parts and that no sexual assault had taken place.

The Crime Branch investigation team is trying to highlight a report from a local doctor that the girl’s injury was not caused in a sexual assault but was self-inflicted.

ADGP Crime, S, Ananthakrishnan,  confirmed to DC that a local doctor had given such a report but maintained that the investigation was still on.

Earlier, a Crime Branch DySP, who investigated the case and was later transferred to Malappuram, told DC that he had filed a report in the court saying that two students who were arrested by the local police were not involved in the crime.

“We could not agree with the findings of the local police and we have found  that the students arrested were not involved in the crime,” DySP Mohana Chandran Nair told DC. One of the arrested  is the son of a famous Islamic religious preacher from Kuttiyadi.

He also contradicted the ADGP version and said that the medical examination reports had said the girl student had no injuries at all.

“Anyone can get the medical report through RTI and it says that the girl had no injury. I do not understand why the media is trying to write about an injury that was not there,” he said.

Local police sources told DC that  efforts were on to save both Perode Abdul Rahman Saqafi, who was arrested for mentally harassing the victim child and her mother and the two accused whose parents are politically well-connected.

“Now they say there was no sexual harassment. Earlier, another DySP had said the girl was sexually abused but not by the arrested accused but by bus cleaner Muneer.

We had suspended a grade SI attached to Nadapuram police station for leaking the case documents to this DySP,” a senior official attached to Nadapuram police said.

The girl’s father has also raised concerns about efforts to derail the probe. “The investigation officials have given us clear hints that the accused would be let off on the pretext that our child had not undergone any harassment.

We are sure that the child was abused. They are trying to save the accused by writing off the case because they are politically connected,” the girl’s father told DC.