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Wednesday, Apr 13, 2005

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Police allowed to interrogate Hajira

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, APRIL 12. The Kerala High Court today ordered that the Mumbai Railway Police and Bangalore Police could interrogate K.K. Hajira, against whom various cases are pending in the Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala, at the Kozhikode sub-jail where she is at present housed.

The order was passed by the vacation judge, Justice J. M. James, when two writ petitions

by Hajira's brother, K. .K Mishab of Kozhikode, and the Hajira Action Committee, seeking a CBI investigation into the death of her two children allegedly by the drug mafia, came up for hearing. On the basis of a production warrant issued by a Mumbai court, the Mumbai Police sought custody of the woman.

The court observed that the Kurla Railway Police and the Majestic City Police, Bangalore, could interrogate Hajira at the sub-jail till a final order was passed on the writ petitions.

Mentally ill

The court had earlier directed the Judicial First Class Magistrate at Payyoli in Thalassery not to hand over Hajira to the Mumbai Police for 10 days.

According to Mr. Mishab, his sister was mentally ill. She was a tool in the hands of a gang of criminals in Mumbai. Hajira was found missing from her home with her two sons, aged three and one year, in December last.

The body of her younger son was found in the waiting room of the Kurla railway station on December 25. A case under Section 302 (murder) and Section 371 (abandonment of children) had been registered against Hajira.

The petitioner said that the woman after leaving home fell into the hands of a drug mafia in Mumbai and was later taken to Bangalore. The mafia had allegedly killed the two children, he said. The alleged offences, including the murder of her two children, took place in Karnataka and Maharastra. Therefore, a CBI probe should be ordered into the case, the petitioner said.

The action committee in its petition alleged that Payyoli had become a hub of drug mafia.

Therefore, only a CBI investigation would bring out the truth. Hajira was enticed by the drug mafia operating at Payyoli. According to her statement given by the Mumbai police, she was taken to the Mumbai and had stayed with several others there.

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