Case against IPS officer transferred to CBI for reinvestigation

Justice PN Prakash before whom the plea filed by de facto complainant D. Pandiraj, challenging the closure report filed by CBCID stating that the complaint as Mistake of fact in his order said, “On a perusal of the CDR details of the mobile phone of Sivanandi, IPS, it is seen that he had been constantly in touch with Gowthaman and Sasikumar, advocates, who were involved in the attack of the residence of the Chief Justice. Dictates of common sense state that the attack would not have been made possible without the backstage support of a senior police officer like Sivanandi.”

“Though Pandiraj has filed a protest application challenging the closure report filed in CB-CID yet, this Court is of the view that this is a fit case, in which, the closure report deserves to be set aside, the case transferred to the CBI and re-investigation ordered, for the reason that, in the protest application, the Magistrate can, at the most, order further investigation by the same police officer and not re-investigation. Therefore, this Court, being a Constitutional Court, has the power to order re-investigation,” the judge added.

The matter relates to a complaint given by Pandiraj in March 2015 against Sujai Anand, Shylaja Reddy, S.V. Subramanian and others for cheating him, of Rs.50 Lakh in the guise of investing the money in a cola manufacturing company and making him a shareholder. 

Subsequently, on April 1, 2015 as he was returning from CCB office after attending an enquiry, he was waylaid by a gang reportedly at the behest of Sivanandi threatening him to withdraw the complaint. But Vepery police station registered a case of attack, where the petitioner had taken refuge.

Sensing arrest, the advocates involved in the attack went as a group to the Chief Justice’s residence for a special mention seeking anticipatory bail and created ruckus in his absence.