CHENNAI: Further investigation into the alleged encounter death of K Ravinder, said to be an extremist, in 2000, was transferred to the CBI on Tuesday. ‘’Prima facie materials are available on record to doubt the version of the authorities concerned and to suspect foul play by some police personnel in the death of Ravinder,’’ a divison bench comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Venugopal observed while allowing a writ appeal from Nirmala, wife of Ravinder, who made various allegations against the police team which killed her husband and the police personnel probing the case. “If this type of serious allegations of human rights violations, particularly by the law protectors themselves, were left withoutproper investigation, it would shake the confidence of the people in the entire justice delivery system in particular and the democracy as a whole,” the bench said and transferred the case to the CBI.The CBI should probe the matter in accordance with law and file its final report before the court concerned within six months, the bench added. Originally, alleging that her husband was killed in a fake encounter on January 10, 2000, Nirmala filed writ petitions demanding a compensation of Rs 10 lakh, to register a case against the police personnel involved in the death for an offence under Section 302 of the IPC and to transfer the case to the CBI. According to the petitioner, her husband was working as a junior engineer in the Telecommunications Department from 1982. He resigned from the post in April 1997 and worked for the poor.The single judge dismissed the petitions on June 9, 2000. Hence, the present appeal.
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