A probe has been launched into the reported lacking of courtroom paperwork in three prison instances, together with the Abhimanyu homicide case, from the Ernakulam District and Periods Courtroom.
P.Ok. Mohandas, the Further District and Periods Decide 8, Ernakulam, will perform a preliminary probe relating to the lacking paperwork.
In addition to the paperwork within the sensational Abhimanyu homicide case, just a few courtroom information associated to a case booked beneath the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances Act and one other one booked beneath the Illegal Actions Prevention Act have been reported to have gone lacking. It was whereas contemplating an software for a licensed copy of the case paperwork that the occasion of lacking papers within the Abhimanyu case was observed.
By the way, the case of lacking paperwork was reported to the Principal District and Periods Decide in July 2023. The courtroom, on its half, reported the case to the Kerala Excessive Courtroom, which ordered the reconstruction of the lacking paperwork. The district courtroom authorities had reported that the 13 paperwork, together with the autopsy examination certificates and chargesheet, have been irrecoverably misplaced.
The reported lacking of the Abhimanyu case paperwork had invited sharp responses from numerous quarters, together with political events. The BJP, the Congress, the CPI(M) and the family members of Abhimanyu had demanded a radical probe into the matter.
In the meantime, the District and Periods Courtroom has determined to check the copies of the paperwork within the Abhimanyu case that have been produced by Particular Prosecutor G. Mohanraj on March 18 (Monday) with the licensed copies of those paperwork that have been offered to the defence legal professionals earlier.
The Principal District and Periods Decide will evaluate the paperwork on March 25 after the defence legal professionals recorded their objection on Monday relating to the paperwork produced by the prosecution.
The photocopies of the paperwork produced by the prosecution, if discovered matching with those provided to the defence legal professionals earlier, will likely be marked as “reconstructed documents” and added to the case file, sources mentioned.