Chennai: The Madras high court has transferred to the CBI from CB-CID the investigation into the death of DSP Vishnupriya, who was found dead allegedly under mysterious circumstances on September 18, 2015 at her residence in Tiruchengode Taluk, Namakkal district. Allowing an appeal from M. Ravi, the father of Vishnupriya, challenging an order of a single judge, which refused to transfer the investigation of the case to the CBI, a division bench comprising Justices Huluvadi G Ramesh and M.V.Muralidaran directed the CBI to conduct investigation afresh and file a final report within three months.
The bench directed the CB-CID, which was probing the case, to hand over the entire records pertaining to the case to the CBI. The details of the order were not made available as the order was not ready on Friday. Senior Counsel P.Wilson, appearing for the appellant submitted that the appellant's daughter Vishnupriya was found dead under mysterious circumstances and the death of his daughter was not known whether it was a homicide or suicide. However the conduct and circumstances which clearly nail the involvement of two senior police officers. Appellant's daughter was handling various sensitive cases apart from Gokul Raj murder case and she faced threats during her investigation in these
cases.
Appellant's daughter had confided these facts with his wife and despite his wife bringing it to the notice of the investigating officer, to his knowledge no enquiry was conducted relating to the same. Some of the sensitive cases handled by Vishnupriya were informed to the investigating officer. She was reprimanded by the SP for taking lawful action. This had led to confrontation with the SP, Wilson added.
He said certain police officers who were colleagues and were working along with appellant's daughter had informed the appellant that they were fearing to depose against high level police officers as two police officers against whom serious allegations were made were still in the helm of affairs in the same jurisdiction. Since highly placed police officers, against whom allegations have been made were still functioning in the same jurisdiction, there were chances of their interfering with the investigation , tampering with witnesses and screening of the evidence. The investigation was found to be tainted with bias and was made only to protect and shied the real offenders. The transfer of investigation was imminent and necessary to discover the truth. The accusation being against state police, it would be desirable to transfer the investigation to CBI, he added.
