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Murder case transferred

Staff Reporter

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday transferred investigation into a death under suspicious circumstances from Tiruchuzhi police station in Virudhunagar district to Crime Branch-CID, Madurai.

Allowing a petition filed by the wife of the deceased, Justice G. Rajasuria directed the Virudhunagar police to hand over the documents pertaining to the case to the CB-CID. He said that the case had to be transferred to reveal the mystery behind the death and bring the culprits to book.

The petitioner, M. Muthurakku of Tiruchuzhi said that her husband, M. Maruthan, was an agricultural labourer by profession. He attended a public meeting presided over by a State Minister in the village on the evening of June 28, 2006, and slept in the bus stand.

At about 11 p.m., two constables attached to the Tiruchuzhi police station beat him up brutally before handing him over, in an unconscious state, to the family members at 2 a.m. Following the advice of doctors at the Virudhunagar Government hospital, he was shifted to the Madurai Government Rajaji hospital where he breathed his last at 1.45 p.m. on July 29.

The petitioner’s counsel, R. Gandhi, said that the police managed to convince the petitioner to take away the body for cremation without conducting an autopsy.

Pursuant to the intervention of a village youth, a post mortem was conducted on August 1 but there was no progress in the investigation, he added.

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