Supreme Court Sends Notice To Government Of Rajasthan And CBI
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a plea for the transfer of the Rajasthan police investigation to the CBI in the death of a third year student of the National Law University, Jodhpur, in August 2017 .
A bench chaired by judge RF Nariman, having heard the case by videoconference, sent notices to the government of Rajasthan, the CBI and another defendant to obtain their answers on the plea of Viket’s mother Neetu Kumar Nagaich victim of 21 years. Nagaich.
The bench, also including judges Navin Sinha and BR Gavai, asked them to file their responses within two weeks, and said it would hear the state of the police investigation.
In addition to requesting the transfer of the crime branch case, Jaipur, Nagaich sought direction from the CBI to take all steps to “solve the mystery of unnatural death”.
While asserting that an FIR was filed in the case after a delay of around 10 months, in June 2018, she alleged that the way in which the investigation was carried out “leads to an unavoidable reasonable apprehension” which is the result of “probable collusion to protect one or more high, powerful and influential people”.
“Despite a delay of almost three years, no indictment has been filed. The investigation has stalled, with no effort to apprehend the offenders,” said the plea, which was argued by the lawyer Sunil Fernandes.
He also reported several alleged breaches of the police investigation.
He said that on August 13, 2017, the victim went to a restaurant, about 300 meters from the university campus, with his friends in the evening but that he did not return and that his body was found on next morning near the railway.
He said police have so far neither approached Google, Facebook, nor recovered data from the victim’s mobile phone, which could have helped trace his movement to verify the events of the night of August 13, 2017 , and led to a new investigation.
The plea said that the police also did not recover the victim’s chat conversations on WhatsApp on the night of the alleged incident.
He said the chat conversation would have been important in determining who the victim was talking to or planning to meet at that time and that it would also have helped uncover the events that led to the death.
“The chronology of events has raised a reasonable suspicion that the death of the petitioner’s son was not just an accident or suicide, but was something more serious and deeper, which required immediate examination and investigation.
“However, the same thing was not done by the investigative agency and the petitioner was appalled and devastated after the death of her only child,” said the plea.
