New Delhi, August 09: A Supreme Court judge has expressed the view that all cases of custodial deaths should be investigated by an independent investigating agency like the CBI.
“My personal opinion is that all custodial deaths should be handed over to the CBI,” Justice Dalveer Bhandari, heading a bench which included Justice Deepak Verma, observed, while dismissing the Kerala Government’s appeal challenging the CBI inquiry into a custodial death case.
The Kerala Government had moved the apex court questioning the CBI probe into the custodial death case of one Sampath who was picked up by the Palakkad police in connection with the death of a woman Sheela.
Sampath, who was picked up for questioning, reportedly died in custody on March 30, 2010.
–Agencies