Thoothukudi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), investigating the May 22 Thoothukudi firing case against anti-Sterlite activists, has registered another case against the officials responsible for the police firing that claimed 13 lives that day.
In the course of the investigation, the Madurai high court bench hearing a petition filed by K.S. Arjunan, CPI(M) Thoothukudi district secretary, seeking the court’s intervention to direct the CBI register criminal case against the police officers and revenue officers responsible for the police firing that claimed 13 lives, the court directed the CBI to register cases on the complaints received in respect of the occurrences at Thoothukudi on May 22.
The deputy superintendent of CBI, R Ravi has been appointed as the investigation officer in the case registered against the unidentified police and revenue officials, sources said.
Accordingly the CBI, based on the complaint of K.S. Arjunan, registered a case against unidentified police and revenue officials responsible for the May 22 police firing under seven IPC sections.
120 (Criminal conspiracy), 166 ( public servant disobeying law with intent to cause injury), 167 (public servant framing incorrect document with intent to cause injury, 392 (robbery) 395 (dacoity), 506(ii) (criminal intimidation) and 34 of IPC (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention).
