INSTIL CONFIDENCE’
Tuticorin firing fit case for CBI probe: Madras HC
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai 10.07.2018
: “I do not understand why the Tamil Nadu government is opposing a CBI probe into the May 22 Tuticorin police shooting. We suggest it only to instil confidence in people. We are not saying that the probe by state police is biased or shabby,” the Madras high court has said.
“Even in the gutka scam we did not order a CBI probe based on the allegations of involvement of a minister and DGP. We did so only to instil confidence in people about fairness of the probe. We had also recorded the same in the order. Similarly, in the present case, when the state police are also involved, a probe by an independent agency would get people’s confidence,” the first bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice P T Asha said on Monday.
This apart, rejecting the claim made by the petitioners’ counsel that the police firing, in which 13 anti-Sterlite protestors were killed was a one-sided attack, the chief justice said: “I seldom watch television. On that day, I was in Kodaikanal and coincidentally I watched the incident being telecast in Time Now news channel. From what was telecast, I am sure it was not one-sided but twosided attack. A section of protestors could be seen attacking police vehicles and setting them on fire.”
This apart, pointing out the submissions of the advocate-general Vijay Narayan that the government had video proof that some of the protestors carried petrol bombs during the ‘peaceful’ rally, the bench said, if such allegations are true such persons cannot be allowed to get away. Moreover, it would be wrong to say that police cannot act in self-defence, the bench added.
Tuticorin firing fit case for CBI probe: Madras HC
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai 10.07.2018
: “I do not understand why the Tamil Nadu government is opposing a CBI probe into the May 22 Tuticorin police shooting. We suggest it only to instil confidence in people. We are not saying that the probe by state police is biased or shabby,” the Madras high court has said.
“Even in the gutka scam we did not order a CBI probe based on the allegations of involvement of a minister and DGP. We did so only to instil confidence in people about fairness of the probe. We had also recorded the same in the order. Similarly, in the present case, when the state police are also involved, a probe by an independent agency would get people’s confidence,” the first bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice P T Asha said on Monday.
This apart, rejecting the claim made by the petitioners’ counsel that the police firing, in which 13 anti-Sterlite protestors were killed was a one-sided attack, the chief justice said: “I seldom watch television. On that day, I was in Kodaikanal and coincidentally I watched the incident being telecast in Time Now news channel. From what was telecast, I am sure it was not one-sided but twosided attack. A section of protestors could be seen attacking police vehicles and setting them on fire.”
This apart, pointing out the submissions of the advocate-general Vijay Narayan that the government had video proof that some of the protestors carried petrol bombs during the ‘peaceful’ rally, the bench said, if such allegations are true such persons cannot be allowed to get away. Moreover, it would be wrong to say that police cannot act in self-defence, the bench added.
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