Udhagamandalam: Supreme Court – Allowing further police investigation into the robbery of murder in Kodanad Estate moved to top teeth with three defining events reported on Thursday.
One: Special Team left for Nepal to track and bring Krishna Bahadhur Thapa, the only eyewitness to violations, murder, and theft at night Intervention 23 and April 24 2017.
Two: Having a virtual open the probe against all 10 people accused , The police called eight of them to present themselves before the team on Thursday.
Three: The probe team now plans to remember some of the witnesses who were ‘thrown’ by the previous team.
While Krishna Bahadhur Thi-Security Security Om Bahadhur Thapa was killed by intruders, Krishna Bahadhur fled with injury.
After the examination, he went for Nepal and his existence was not known at this time.
During the trial in 2019, the court directed prosecution to produce thora for further examination, but the police could not produce it in court.
Of the 10 people accused of, while the main suspect K V Sayan has been examined, Waliha Manoj was submitted in a central prison, Coimbatore.
The remaining eight came out on a guarantee and lived in Kerala.
Two of them – Samsheer Ali (accused of 4) and Jithin Joy (accused of 10) – Asked, through the message Whatsapp-called, appeared before the police on Thursday.
However, their advisor told the police about their difficulties in reaching Ooty on the same day from the Thrissur in Kerala.
The source told Ti that fresh calls would be sent to all defendants and their questions will begin on Monday.
Although initially 103 witnesses were named, the police team was then distributed with 62 of the trial.
Among witnesses ‘shared with’ is Natarajan, manager of Kodanadu Estate.
He has been called and examined by a special investigation team led by additional supervisors of Krishnamurthy police a few days ago.
Another witness, Shaji (PW-23) was called and questioned.
Now, besides remembering some of them, the police plan to ask the ‘important person’ that seems to be connected with this case but not registered as a previous witness.
Some of the arrests again in the coming days cannot be ruled out, said the source.
Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police (Western Zone) R Sudhakar and Deputy Inspector General Muthusamy Most of the campers in Ooty monitor investigations and track developments in investigations.
Kodanad: Police go to Nepal to track witnesses
