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Arrested after 14 years, let on bail

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, NOV.9. An accused arrested after 14 years of registering a case against him was today ordered to be released on bail by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. The police arrested Charles Albin alias Amuthan of Nagercoil on October 12, 2004 in connection with a rioting incident in March 1990.

According to prosecution, Amuthan along with some college students prevented policemen from discharging their duty when the students of a college in Tirunelveli staged a road roko. They were agitating against the arrest of the college founder for alleged irregularities in the institution. Though the name of the petitioner was not included in the first information report, he was later impleaded as an absconding accused in the charge sheet filed before the Judicial Magistrate at Valliyur in March 1992.

Arguing for the petitioner, N. Sudharsan contended that the petitioner was a trainee with a mosaic laying contractor at the time of occurrence of the crime and he was educated only up to sixth standard and hence, he had no connection with the agitation of the college students. Amuthan was waiting in a bus stop near the place of occurrence when a policeman suddenly attacked him on his head with a baton and was admitted to the Government Hospital for treatment and later discharged.

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