Shift girl missing case to CB-CID: High Court Bench

In his petition, Gnaniah, from Kuruvikulam in Tirunelveli district, has stated that his daughter Anbu Stella (24), who was working as a nurse at a private hospital at Perumalpuram in Tirunelveli, went missing on September, 10, 2015. 

According to Gnaniah, Anbu Stella went to handover Rs 2.75 lakh to a pastor, Millan King, who had promised her job on payment, and did not return since then. When he approached Kuruvikulam Police to file a missing case, he was asked to approach the Tirunelveli city police as his daughter was working in Tiurnelveli. Then he approached Tirunelveli SP and obtained a direction to file a case at Kuruvikulam Police, but even then a case was not registered. 

Meanwhile, he had received a call from Anbu Stella on March 8, 2016, that she was kidnapped but the call got disconnected immediately. Hence he has filed a Habeas Corpus petition demanding police to trace his daughter. 

When the petition was taken up for hearing on Thursday Tirunelveli SP Vikraman informed the court that Millan and his wife Geevitha were arrested in connection with the case and Geevitha in the inquiry had informed that they had murdered Stella by torching her on January 4, 2016, at Kaveripattinam in Krishnagiri district. When the body was found, it resembled the body of Stella, claimed SP. However, when judges asked him whether confirmation tests were performed on the body, SP replied in negative. 

On hearing his replay, judges became infuriated and blamed police’s lacklustre in their investigation though there were several techniques available to ascertain identity. “Owing to this, more than 90 percent cases are not investigated properly and accused in most of the cases get acquitted. People with power and influence use the lacklustre attitude of cops to escape from such offences,” observed the judges. 

Then judges, in their order, said that the case should be shifted to CB-CID and directed Tirunelveli SP to file a status report of Stella before November 14.