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Enviable record for Crime Branch

The constitution of special investigations teams has helped the Kozhikode Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) crack several cases in the past seven years. The rate of detection is over 75 per cent.

Incidentally, the local police had earlier unsuccessfully investigated these cases. Only in sensitive cases, a fresh group of officers is formed, says T.V. Kamalakshan, who has been the Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch for the last five years.< /p>

As of now, the Crime Branch has completed investigations and is awaiting sanction order from the police headquarters for disposal in 10 of 30 cases. Investigations have almost either been completed or are in the final stages in the rest of the 20 cases, including rape and murder.

A sensational case the wing investigated was the killing of nine fishermen on the Marad beach on May 2, 2003. It was able to nab the culprits within three months. Mr. Kamalakshan said Crime Branch sleuths had solved several cases of unnatural death and murders. One such case was the mysterious death of an autorickshaw driver who allegedly committed suicide. Now it has been found that a few autorickshaw drivers drove him to suicide. The agency also solved the Vibhas murder case leading to the arrest of six migrant labourers from Tamil Nadu.

He said the Crime Branch had been able to identify 14 accused in the illegal transporting of spirit from Gujarat. The High Court of Kerala, after finding the probe by the Pulpally police unsatisfactory, ordered that the case be handed over to a special investigating agency. Officials had also been able to piece together the evidences to explain the mysterious death of a Tamil worker at a quarry in the limits of the Nallalam police station.

The Crime Branch solved the case of siphoning of funds from the Atholy Service Cooperative Bank. It also busted a racket involved in fake recruitments to the army.

Although the Crime Branch has been able to get to the bottom of many of the cases, transfer of inspectors after a period of six months is affecting the wing’s smooth functioning. Besides an SP, the wing has two Dy.SPs, five Circle Inspectors, four Sub-Inspectors and 42 constables.

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