Where is Jayagopal? Police have no answer
TNN | Sep 16, 2019, 04.18 AM ISTCHENNAI:
Where is S Jayagopal, the man who put up the poster that killed Subashree? Do the city police really not know?
“Though his mobile number remains switched off, we are not tracking his mobile phone as the section [IPC 336 - act endangering life and personal safety of others] under which the case is filed is bailable. Even if he is arrested, he will be let out on bail immediately,” said a police officer.
Police sources said they were working to strengthen the case against the ex-councillor. “To make it stronger, they can get legal opinion from the public prosecutor and invoke stringent sections or alter the sections,” said advocate V S Suresh.
“We are waiting for the legal opinion. We will decide what other sections would be included at the time of filing the charge sheet,” said assistant commissioner, South traffic investigation, Kumaravel.
But that still does not explain why the police have not so far arrested the man or why legal opinion has not been tendered three days after the incident.
Jayagopal had illegally put up scores of posters on an arterial road at Pallikaranai. One of the posters came loose and fell on Subashree. She was knocked off her bike and came under the wheels of a water tanker.
Despite the public outrage that illegal hoardings had claimed another life in the state, there was no attempt to arrest Jayagopal on Friday. On Saturday, people in Pallikaranai and the media knew that he had been admitted to a hospital. But the police said he wasn’t there when they went to pick him up. The owner of the press that printed the hoarding hasn’t been picked up either.
TNN | Sep 16, 2019, 04.18 AM ISTCHENNAI:
Where is S Jayagopal, the man who put up the poster that killed Subashree? Do the city police really not know?
“Though his mobile number remains switched off, we are not tracking his mobile phone as the section [IPC 336 - act endangering life and personal safety of others] under which the case is filed is bailable. Even if he is arrested, he will be let out on bail immediately,” said a police officer.
Police sources said they were working to strengthen the case against the ex-councillor. “To make it stronger, they can get legal opinion from the public prosecutor and invoke stringent sections or alter the sections,” said advocate V S Suresh.
“We are waiting for the legal opinion. We will decide what other sections would be included at the time of filing the charge sheet,” said assistant commissioner, South traffic investigation, Kumaravel.
But that still does not explain why the police have not so far arrested the man or why legal opinion has not been tendered three days after the incident.
Jayagopal had illegally put up scores of posters on an arterial road at Pallikaranai. One of the posters came loose and fell on Subashree. She was knocked off her bike and came under the wheels of a water tanker.
Despite the public outrage that illegal hoardings had claimed another life in the state, there was no attempt to arrest Jayagopal on Friday. On Saturday, people in Pallikaranai and the media knew that he had been admitted to a hospital. But the police said he wasn’t there when they went to pick him up. The owner of the press that printed the hoarding hasn’t been picked up either.
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