Tamil Nadu: Human sacrifice charge will be probed
Bench also instructed the government to provide proper security to the complainants before posting the case hearing to October 15
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-09-16 06:27 GMT
Chennai: The Madras high court on Tuesday granted advocate commissioner U. Sagayam, IAS. another fortnight to file his report on the granite mining scam. The first bench of the HC comprising chief justice S.K. Kaul and justice T.S. Sivagnanam acceded the request of Sagayam based on the submission made by his advocate Suresh this morning that another two weeks would be required to submit the report, which would run in to several thousand pages and requires a thorough analysis of various issues.
Meanwhile, the state government assured the HC that it would conduct a “proper investigation” into the issue of skeletons unearthed from the alleged quarrying site in Madurai. The bench also instructed the government to provide proper security to the complainants before posting the case hearing to October 15.
On Sunday, Sagayam unearthed skeletons of four persons including that of a small baby suspected to be victims of human sacrifice by a quarry owner in E. Malampatti near Melur in Madurai. Sagayam had ordered digging of sites on the banks of the Manimutharu based on a complaint by one Prabhu alias Sevarkodiyan, saying that mentally challenged persons had been sacrificed as part of suspected Narabali pooja in one of the granite quarries owned by PRP group back in 1999.
Meanwhile, ttwo employees of a granite company on Tuesday appeared before police in Madurai. Manager of PRP Granites, Ayappan and quarry-in-charge Jothibasu appeared before the police though police had issued summons to four persons, police said.