Kerala Excessive Courtroom constructing
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A Division Bench of the Kerala Excessive Courtroom on Monday (March 3, 2025) dismissed an enchantment filed by Manjusha, spouse of K. Naveen Babu, a former Kannur Extra District Justice of the Peace (ADM), towards a single decide’s order dismissing her plea for a CBI probe into the death of her husband.

In her enchantment, she mentioned that her plea was refused by the one decide with out making an allowance for the obvious flaws and discrepancies within the current investigation by the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT). She had submitted that the investigation by the SIT won’t be neutral because the accused, former Kannur district panchayat president P.P. Divya, was “a really influential and distinguished chief” of a ruling celebration.

The SIT had already concluded that it was a case of suicide and had failed to analyze the angle of homicidal hanging.

She argued that the investigating company filed an affidavit stating that the investigation was occurring whereas it mentioned in different a part of the affidavit that it was a case of suicide.

In response to her, medical examinations of blood stains on garments and viscera are usually not being investigated correctly. It was submitted that even earlier than the autopsy examination was accomplished, cops prematurely labelled it as a case of suicide, seemingly in an effort to save lots of the accused.

Naveen Babu was discovered useless at his residence in Kannur on October 15, 2024. The police suspected that he dedicated suicide following public humiliation and allegations of corruption levelled towards him by Ms. Divya, at his farewell occasion on October 14. The SIT later arrested Ms. Divya and she or he was launched on bail on November 8.