New FIRs registered by the Central agency raise eyebrows.
A special team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials from New Delhi arrived in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday to investigate the deaths of traders P. Jayaraj, 58, and his son J. Benicks, 31, of Sattankulam, police sources said.
The Central agency took over the investigation into the sensational case at the State government’s request. Though the CBI’s Special Crimes Unit – II had adopted the First Information Report (FIR) of the Kovilpatti East police station in both cases under Section 176 (A)(1) of the CrPC, the mention of “illegal detention, murder, destruction of evidence etc,” in the re-registered FIRs has raised eyebrows.
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The FIRs registered by the Kovilpatti East police station were based on the complaints lodged by M. Shanker, jail superintendent, Kovilpatti sub-jail. The complaint referred to the health complications of remand prisoners Jayaraj and Benicks whi