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CBI finds lapses in police probe

PALAKKAD: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the mysterious death of the former company secretary of Malabar Cements Limited (MCL) V. Sasheendran and his two minor sons at their house at Kanjikode on January 24, 2011, found “serious lapses on the part of the local police that resulted in the destruction of vital evidence.”

The CBI team headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police N. Raveendranathan Nair on Thursday examined M.K. Kumaran, Sub-Inspector of Police, Kasaba, and Deputy Superintendent of Police, Vigilance, Saifulla Sayeed, who investigated four corruption cases of MCL in which the deceased Sasheendran was a key witness.

Mr. Sayeed is learned to have told the CBI that Mr. Sasheendran told him about the threat he had received from company contractor V.M. Radhakrishnan, who was charge-sheeted in these corruption cases and one of the accused in the mysterious death of Sasheendran.

He told the police that Sasheendran had told him during the investigation of corruption cases that he was harassed by the Managing Director and the executive secretary of MCL for giving evidence before the vigilance.

The CBI team found that the local police did not take the fingerprints from the sight of the incident and allowed large number of visitors to the room in which the three were found hanged. In such cases, the police used to cordon off the area immediately after the incident is known.

The local police informed the forensic wing only three days after the incident. By that time all the evidence from the site of the incident was lost.

This was the main problem in proving this sensational case, the CBI officials said. Despite the demand from the wife and other family members of Sasheendran to conduct post mortem on the bodies at the Medical College Hospital, the local police conducted it at the District Hospital.

The CBI officials felt that this was a ‘deliberate lapse on the part of the local police' to help those who were involved in the case.

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