HC asks govt. to take choice on plea to nominate particular public prosecutor in Shuhaib case

The Kerala Excessive Court docket on Wednesday directed the State authorities to contemplate and take a choice in six weeks on a illustration searching for to nominate a particular public prosecutor in a case referring to the homicide of Shuhaib, a Youth Congress chief from Kannur.

Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan, whereas disposing of a writ petition filed by the mother and father of Shuhaib, additionally ordered deferring of the trial within the case pending earlier than the Thalassery Further Classes Choose until the federal government takes a choice on the illustration filed by the mother and father.

Shuhaib, 29, was hacked to demise in Mattannur, Kannur, on February 12, 2018. The case was earlier investigated by a Particular Investigation Staff. The Excessive Court docket later ordered an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) within the case on a writ petition moved by the mother and father. They’d alleged that the investigation on the very inception was shabby and lackadaisical because the accused have been Communist Occasion of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] employees. The Supreme Court docket just lately dismissed an enchantment filed by the authorities towards the Excessive Court docket’s verdict for a CBI probe within the case.

Related to CPI(M)

Of their petition searching for to nominate Padmanabhan, a lawyer from Hosdurg, because the particular public prosecutor, the mother and father mentioned that the current public prosecutor in control of the case was intently related to the CPI(M). He could not be capable to prosecute the case in an neutral and efficient method with none concern because the accused are ardent activists of the CPI(M). It’s important to nominate a particular public prosecutor of the petitioners’ selection to make sure a free and honest trial and instil confidence within the minds of the petitioner, they contended.